Sep 14 1998
From The Space Library
At a ceremony marking its official opening, Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore III announced that Reston-based DynCorp was the first major investor in the Commercial Spaceport Launch Pad at Virginia Space Flight Center on Wallops Island, the nation's third commercial spaceport. The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, a collaborative effort of the state, the Center for Innovative Technology at Old Dominion University in Virginia, NASA, and private industry, had developed the communications facility, located at one end of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The spaceport was one of 18 sites competing to launch the VentureStar TM, a privately owned space plane still in development, which could eventually carry construction materials to the ISS.
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