03. Will the launch sites be local, national and international? (A K2S Question)

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The best spaceports will be a little like Disneyland, and lots of folks will use them both to take trips into space, and as a place to visit for a day. Some of the 22 countries around the world which have spaceports will want to use them for space tourism, but not all of them. Many countries will be content to just keep firing unmanned rockets from their launch sites, for scientific and other purposes. There is space tourism today from a spaceport called Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. There will also probably be tourist flights from Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana in South America.

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