One REALLY Long Runway for Rent 211
DarkNemesis618 writes "NASA is looking into putting its 15,000 foot runway up for rent at the Kennedy Space Center. The runway, which is used for Space Shuttle landings, will soon be used less and less as the Shuttle fleet is set to be retired in 2010. The first private venture was seen last month when Steve Fossett took off at KSC in Virgin Atlantic's experimental plane. One promising deal in the works comes from Zero Gravity Corp. which offers customers a few seconds of weightlessness on a Boeing 727-200. The shuttle runway, built in the 1970s never got the use it was expected to, and with the next generation of space vehicles using parachutes to land, the runway is going to have even less use."
Sell it piecemeal. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yes! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Runway Lengths (Score:4, Funny)
You mean the musical? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I could Land on that (Score:3, Funny)
World's largest (Score:3, Funny)
I know you want to.
Re:An offer has been proposed by Ford (Score:2, Funny)
Make it the official U.S. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Runway Lengths (Score:3, Funny)
True story:
We went on one of the bus tours at KSC. The bus had the usual complement, about half foreign tourists. We'd been around to see all the derelict technological wonders of the Apollo program and were headed back to the main visitor's center. The tour driver pointed out an common American Alligator in a run-off ditch alongside the road and stopped so the out-of-towners could get a good look. Those Nikon-toting tourists just about tipped the bus over trying to get a look at the scaley nuisance.
I wonder... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure there's something cool that Adam & Jamie could test there.
Something dangerous.
To: George W. Bush +1, Commercial (Score:1, Funny)
Dubai would be interested in purchasing the runway for Al-Qaeda Airlines [whitehouse.org].
Feloniously as always from an undisclosed, secure crashcart,
President-Vice Richard B. Cheney
Re:Sell it piecemeal. (Score:1, Funny)
Or they could ground lease. I bet they could fit at least a couple of Wal-Mart Supercenters, a couple of Home Depots, a Barnes and Noble, one each of a Wells Fargo and a Bank of America branch, an AMC 42 theater complex, a couple of 3 story plus basement parking lot apartment complexes, an Office Depot, Starbucks cafes spaced strategically every few hundred feet and a Dell kiosk that rolls from one end of the strip to the other to top it off. Then you wouldn't be able to tell it apart from the rest of the country.
Dragway. (Score:2, Funny)
Come see renegade Slashdot nerds pilot their rocket-powered, case-modded FUNNYCAAARRRS!!!!
Touch and goes! (Score:3, Funny)