Judge temporarily halts disputed spaceport sale

[thelakelander]

A WJCT News article with an update on a controversial plan to bring a spaceport to Camden County.

Read More: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/judge-temporarily-halts-disputed-spaceport-sale/

[Florida Power And Light]

The transformation of rural natural lands, timber production lands, watershed quality lands, " Recreation" lands; Hunt lease et al are a current worthy County component, the substantial alteration / deviation for Different ( Spaceport) is nothing other than a Request placed before the Citizen's government, and if the government decides " in favor" the Citizens can Appeal.
There is nothing " Inevitable " about the land use change, more jobs et al.
 

[jaxlongtimer]

^ Seems the last thing the US needs is another space port.  Don't we have enough with the Florida, Virginia, California and Texas vertical launch sites plus other horizontal sites such as Cecil and the Pacific Missile Range in Hawaii.  Plus, NASA is also using Russia (to the International Space Station) and the European launch site (see the Webb telescope launch this week).

FYI, this proposed site in Georgia was home to one of the nation's worst industrial disasters in 1971 when Thiokol was making flares for the Vietnam war.  Ironically, the original purpose of the plant was to make solid rocket propellant but NASA decided on liquid propellant so the plant changed over to making flares.  29 people were killed and 50 more injured.  It was one of the largest accidental peacetime explosions in the US.  (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol-Woodbine_explosion )  Union Carbide bought the site in 1976.