Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!SU-AI.ARPA!REM%IMSSS
From: REM%IMSSS@SU-AI.ARPA (Robert Elton Maas)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Australian bulk-payload delivery & spaceport nearby
Message-ID: <8611180622.AA12197@s1-b.arpa>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 01:23:12 EST
Article-I.D.: s1-b.8611180622.AA12197
Posted: Tue Nov 18 01:23:12 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 08:45:27 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 15

<HS> Date: 14 Oct 86 18:46:27 GMT
<HS> From: adelie!axiom!linus!utzoo!henry@ll-xn.arpa  (Henry Spencer)
<HS> Subject: recursive compressive members as alternative to filling with gas

> ...Still, you have to transport from the Sahara, it would be nice to
> be able to deliver to some point on Earth not near Libya,

<HS> Actually, the Australian desert is probably better than the Sahara for a
<HS> number of reasons, political stability among them.

And wasn't there some recent article about Australia setting up a
multinational spaceport, the first in the world, on their northern
coast? Having the launch&return port and also a large desert landing
area for payloads in the same general area (and under the same
government) would seem to have economic advantages.