Liftoff for Space Center: Ground-breaking expected this year near Lompoc

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Liftoff for Space Center: Ground-breaking expected this year near Lompoc

By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 21st, 2011 / Comments Off on Liftoff for Space Center: Ground-breaking expected this year near Lompoc

After a decade of proposing and planning, a mid-year groundbreaking is scheduled for the California Space Center, a 500,000-square-foot complex just outside of the only space port on the West Coast at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Two firms — including Hawthorne-based SpaceX, the company vying to take U.S. astronauts into orbit as NASA replaces the…

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