Airlines Are Not Happy About The Billionaire Space Race
A launch by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in February was the biggest in the company’s history, but the report mentioned above states that it also caused 563 flights to be delayed and 62 additional miles to be stacked onto flights in the southeast region. Right now, most of the burgeoning space industry’s launch activity is focused on the historically spaced out Cape Canaveral in Florida, but that’s only one of 22 launch sites currently active in the United States, with Brownsville, Texas; Watkins, Colorado; and Camden County, Georgia looking to get in on the action as well....