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Michigan wants space facility at former military base

A task force picked the Wurtsmith Airport out of 8 sites across the state. Lawmakers are hoping the space facility could launch satellites and tourists into space.
Credit: Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport Authority website

LANSING, Mich. — (Detroit Free Press) — Michigan lawmakers and aerospace officials are hoping that a former military base might become a space facility where public and private industries could launch satellites and tourists into space. 

A task force picked the Wurtsmith Airport out of eight sites across the state. The airport stopped operating as an Air Force base in 1993. 

The Detroit Free Press reports a group of legislators and the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturing Association announced the selection Tuesday at the state Capitol. 

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