02. Are there already suggested sites? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Today there are six different places in the US where some kind of launch can take place. Most of them have been there for ages—like Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vandenberg in California, Wallops Island in Virginia, and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The newest one is Mojave, in the high desert behind Los Angeles. This is where the X Prize flights took place in 2004, and where the first tourism flights will take place in 2016. Additionally, there are nearly a dozen new spaceports being planned for space tourism, in Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Alabama, Utah, Wisconsin and Washington state, although it is possible that not all of them will be built. It will be good if there is one near your home, because you will be able to see the take offs and landings.

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Answer provided by Derek Webber & Rick Homans & Eric Anderson

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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