Questions, Hope Surround Proposed Camden County Spaceport

Jim Renner, a Little Cumberland Island landowner, has concerns about the proposed spaceport in Camden County.

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Camden County, Georgia, right on the border with Florida, has a big idea for its future. Its leaders have spent millions trying to get a license from the FAA to launch rockets from a spaceport they don’t yet have.

County officials are confident this will be an economic boon, but not everybody’s convinced.

After the release of the draft environmental impact statement an unprecedented 15,000 comments were submitted, according to the FAA. The vast majority were form letters from advocacy groups. Previous spaceport draft statements had received hundreds.