Tom Marotta of The Spaceport Company joins me to talk about what they’re working on, their vision for the future of spaceflight, spaceport operations, the demonstration they did in May, the FAA and its interaction with private companies, reentry licensing, and a whole host of other topics.

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Topics

• Tom Marotta (@thomasmarotta) / X
• Tom Marotta | LinkedIn
• The Spaceport Company
• The Spaceport Company: Overview | LinkedIn
• The Spaceport Company (@TheSpaceportCo) / X
• The Spaceport Company- Full Length Launch ProRes HQ 4 - YouTube
• The Spaceport Company demonstrates offshore launch operations - SpaceNews
• Cape Congestion: World's busiest spaceport stretched to its limits - SpaceNews
• The Space Review: The spaceport bottleneck
• Chinese Ceres-1 rocket reaches orbit with first sea launch - SpaceNews
• The High Frontier: An Easier Way: Marotta, Tom, Globus, Al: 9781719231749: Amazon.com: Books

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