MARS Tag Design Readied for 2010

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport special automobile license tag plate will not be produced until the summer of 2010 due to the time crunch and failure to gain 350 pre-subscriptions in time for the 2009 General Assembly to pass it, says Jack Kennedy, secretary of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority.

"We have gathered over one hundred subscriptions in southwestern Virginia's Wise County alone and will seek to have 350 subscriptions will be in hand from the mountains of southwestern Virginia by late summer if possible, " notes Kennedy. "We are there on the tag design now."

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport special tag will be one more highly visible tool to market the spaceport within the commercial space launch community and to expand the awareness of the spaceport among the resident populace and among the millions of annual tourists ro Virginia from throughout the nation.