09/27/2023
The state is keeping this on the QT - it was passed under the gavel without recorded votes in an 'Emergency' bill.
At Common Ground Fair last Sunday BluShift Aerospace CEO Dari admitted he was going to get funding from NASA and Space Force.
He claimed during Augusta process that it would be all civilian launches - 34 per year to start. https://sites.google.com/view/notoxicrocketsforme/home
https://www.newscentermaine.com/amp/article/tech/science/environment/downeast-rocket-launch-site-promises-industry-boom-worrying-environmentalists-nature/97-71029797-bd60-4ca7-90a7-6f9271d00525
While many in Steuben invite BluShift Aerospace's plans for a rocket hub, others say it will harm fisheries and pollute the Gulf of Maine.