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Why All The Spaceports Are In Red States

3 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Carlo Cocuzzi. This content was uploaded by Carlo Cocuzzi. This is a YouTube video titled "Why All The Spaceports Are In Red States" (created 2026-09-03). The excerpt is a spoken segment from a talk or panel (one primary speaker, labeled here as Speaker A, who references another participant named Peter) discussing a White House executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to appropriate federal land for spaceports. The speaker argues that federally owned land in red states (e.g., White Sands in New Mexico, Nevada Test and Training Range, Goldwater Range in Arizona, and broadly Nevada/Utah) are the likeliest sites for federal spaceports, contrasts those with private starbases on the Gulf Coast, and projects this pattern enabling very high launch capacity (≈30,000 per unit time).

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Going back, Peter, to your comment on the White House announcement, buried in that announcement was an executive order to the Secretary of the Interior to start appropriating federal land for federal spaceports. And so if you pull the string a bit and ask, where are we likely to get federally owned land for spaceports? I don't know if folks want to guess what the, the likeliest candidates are. I think we're going to get a few of them. Any takers? Let's see. Where's all the federal land? Nevada, Utah. Exactly. So my calculus is— In red states. May or may not be a coincidence that the federal government owns so much land in red states. White Sands National Missile Range in New Mexico, Nevada Test and Training Range, and Goldwater Range in Arizona are the leading candidates for spaceports. So I think we get in the American Southwest, we get federal space bases or starbases, and on the Gulf Coast we get private Starbases, as it were, and that's how we get to this 30,000 per unit time launch capability.