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Record Group Number: 000795
Series/Collection Number: .S 1928
Creator: Spaceport Florida Authority.
Title, Dates: Project files, 1988-1998.
Amount: 4 cubic ft.
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Summary:     This series contains project reports for Spaceport Florida Authority.  The primary document is the Spaceport Florida Operational Feasibility Report from 1988.  This is a comprehensive multi-volume document covering safety standards, range safety, environmental impact, economic feasibility,  market analysis, operational feasibility,  standard operating procedures, legal issues, and policy issues.  Other significant projects included are a comprehensive financial review, information on Launch Complex 46, and various Launch Support Contract Proposals.       


    Also of interest are correspondence, memoranda, testimony, and reports relating to the commercialization of space.  Also of note are reports discussing international competition in launch services, especially from China and Europe (Arianespace),  and reports detailing the importance of the United States developing and maintaining a strong commercial expendable launch vehicle (ELV) capability.  Launch projects by several of the major American aerospace companies including Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics are also discussed.  Researchers studying the development of expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), medium launch vehicles (MLVs), and advanced launch systems in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s would find this collection useful.
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Subject Access Fields: Spaceports Florida.
Space industrialization Florida.
Rocketry.
Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Launch complexes (Astronautics)
Space sciences.
Reports. aat
Cape Canaveral (Fla.)
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