Virginia is gaining some Space Age economic stimulation in Northern Virginia and the Eastern Shore with the much anticipated development of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus-II booster. The rocket is to launch supplies to the International Space Station in 2011 from Virginia's fledgling Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
Orbital Sciences Corporation is planning a 500-to-600 job expansion at the launch firm's Dulles, VA facilities upon the announcement of the $1.9 billion NASA space station re-supply contract. Another 100-to-125 will be created on Virginia's Eastern Shore with $26-million planned expenditures on a new launch pad and associated infrastructure.
Does Virginia mean business? Aerospace business that is; and, perhaps, even human-rated space flights from Virginia? Many believe in the possible-to-probable.
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