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- FAA -- Office of Commercial Space Transportation
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- Singapore Spaceport
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- Goddard, Jacqui. "Up, Up and Ka-Ching!" Newsweek. Feb. 11, 2008. (May 8, 2008) http://www.newsweek.com/id/107550
- Kennedy Space Center. "Understanding Spaceport Functions." Advance Spaceport Technology Working Group. (May 13, 2008)http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/projects/astwg/vfunct04.doc
- Madrid, Allan and Hastings, Michael. "The New Space Race." Newsweek. Sept. 18, 2006. (May 8, 2008)http://www.newsweek.com/id/46262
- Regis, Ed. "Field of Dreams." Air & Space. April/May 2007. (May 8, 2008)http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/spaceport.html
- Silverman, Jacob. "From Nowhere to Out There." Wired Magazine. Aug. 10, 2006. (May 8, 2008)http://www.wired.com/print/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71518
- Stroh, Michael. "Up and Away." Popular Science. April 2007. (May 8, 2008)http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2007-03/and-away
- Thomas, Catherine Booth. "The Space Cowboys." TIME Magazine. Feb. 22, 2007. (May 8, 2008)http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1592834,00.html#
- US Fed News Service. "Gov. Richardson, NASA Administrator Agree Commercial Spaceports Can Fill Vital US Need in Space." April 2, 2008.
