“Whoooo!,” exclaimed Brenda Rolls, chair of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority after the board approved a contract to make Oklahoma the U.S. home of a European-based spaceplane.
DAWN Aerospace, based in the Netherlands, reached out to locate its only U-S operation at the Burns Flat Space port.
“By many metrics, the Mk-II will be the highest-performance vehicle ever to take off from a runway. It will fly faster than an SR-71, and climb faster than an F-15, and to higher altitudes than any aircraft before it,” declared the company website…