Has either organization thought about pooling donations to buy a launch site? It cost could be huge, but the dividend would massive.
Millions of $$$ for a site that would get used once a year for a national launch?
Wonder if a lease could be arranged. Much less expensive than purchase, and allow it to expire if there were any issues with waivers or other permissions.
Hi Bob, at this point I think it's just idle speculation, as even the combined resources of TRANAR wouldn't pay for a decent-sized parcel of useful land.Guys,
I'm not here to discuss the merits or disadvantages of a national launch site. If this is really considered, I would like to see this done somewhere other than Argonia. We have worked years and years to get to the current relationship we currently have with our landowners, the community and the FAA. I'm not sure the Kloudbusters would be keen giving that up to the national organization which has no local presence. Remember, a launch site is more than the land you park on and fly rockets from.
Bob Brown
Prefect, Kloudbusters
Guys,
I'm not here to discuss the merits or disadvantages of a national launch site. If this is really considered, I would like to see this done somewhere other than Argonia. We have worked years and years to get to the current relationship we currently have with our landowners, the community and the FAA. I'm not sure the Kloudbusters would be keen giving that up to the national organization which has no local presence. Remember, a launch site is more than the land you park on and fly rockets from.
Bob Brown
Prefect, Kloudbusters
No good deed eh?It was just an idea. I was bored at work. Forget I even asked it.
Thanks. Since the post, I got a couple of belittling PMs. It really got under my skin. I know it is a pipe dream but so was going to the moon.
If not buy, rent for a week for 99 years. Heck, maybe it could be funded with a GoFundMe. Advertise the heck out of it. Get one of our more photogenic members to go on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Maybe a landowner will step forward and let us rent it.
I could be the face of the movement, but ... hmm, I might be too good-looking. Got to keep it real.Get one of our more photogenic members to go on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.
Chuck,
The foundation of Tripoli was laid on ideas that others thought were completely wrong and would spell the end of model rocketry as they knew it. If we cannot explore ideas then we will never know where progress might take us.
I could be the face of the movement, but ... hmm, I might be too good-looking. Got to keep it real.
Is it a good idea? probably not.
Would it be sweet to have a massive space with really really really cool permanent launch fixtures? Hell yes.
A mecca of rocketry would be badass. But I think a private owner would be more likely than a club or organization getting land.
So true.Probably true, but a man without a dream is one sad man.
Probably true, but a man without a dream is one sad man.
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