{"id":324255,"date":"2024-07-02T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=324255"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:53:37","slug":"faa-clears-airport-at-las-vegas-spaceport-for-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/faa-clears-airport-at-las-vegas-spaceport-for-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Partially Clears Airport at Las Vegas Spaceport for Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

An airport for recreational space travel in Las Vegas just cleared the second hurdle on its voyage toward reality. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently approved some of the plans for a private airport on 240 acres of desert land that its owners hope to transform into the Las Vegas Spaceport.<\/p>\n

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A rendering of a portion of the Las Vegas Spaceport, to be located 45 minutes southwest of Las Vegas along its border with Pahrump, Nev. (Image: Las Vegas Spaceport)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Las Vegas Executive Airport is where private planes will one day, developers hope, bring civilian astronauts to a complex called the Las Vegas Space Center that will feature the spaceport plus a ground school for flight acclimation training, and a 200-room hotel with a restaurant and 20,000 square-foot casino.<\/p>\n

In May, the Clark County Commission unanimously approved construction permits<\/a> for the Las Vegas Spaceport to build a $30 million runway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

About $10 million in investor pledges Lauer received were contingent on both approvals, according to the press release.<\/p>\n

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However, the FAA documents, obtained by KTVN-TV\/Las Vegas,<\/em> only grant partial approval “with respect to the safe and efficient use of navigable airspace by aircraft and with respect to the safety of persons and property on the ground.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“This determination does not constitute FAA approval or disapproval of the physical development involved in the proposal,” the documents made it a point to state.<\/p>\n

It is not known whether partial approval will satisfy the project’s investors.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

Space Frontier Far from Final<\/h2>\n

Nevertheless, the Las Vegas Spaceport still needs to raise the rest of its expected $310 million cost.<\/p>\n

And, the company would also need to partner with one of the 37 companies currently seeking FAA approval to build space planes, as well as a casino company to run its gaming and a hotel company to run its hotel.<\/p>\n

In other words, we are still more than a decade from the spaceport’s first countdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a 10-year plan to build a space tourism industry here,\u201d Las Vegas Spaceport CEO Robert Lauer previously told Casino.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why Vegas?<\/h2>\n

The primary reason to build a spaceport in Las Vegas, Lauer said, is the town\u2019s 40 million visitors per year.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all only a 15-minute helicopter ride away,\u201d Lauer said.<\/em> \u201cAnd how many folks do we have flying to Las Vegas and spending $100,000 on a hand of poker? Casinos in Las Vegas could offer our rides as a bonus to their highest-paying customers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Currently, 14 similar spaceports are licensed by the FAA, though only two are privately owned, and you already guessed by whom. (One guy owns SpaceX, the other a little company called Amazon.)<\/p>\n

However, instead of the $200K-$300K average it costs to ride with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, Lauer said that developing tech will bring costs down to as little as $30K-50K per seat by the time his dream becomes reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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