“We want to get to the ground breaking and the jobs associated with that as early as we can, this year if at all possible,” Stephen Matier, president and CEO of Maritime Launch Services, said in an interview Wednesday.
St. Francis Xavier has been chosen to implement an air-monitoring program for the spaceport with the help of the university’s FluxLab, led by Dr. David Risk. Matier said Maritime Launch Services plans to keep as much of the building process as possible within Nova Scotia and Canada. The company is to host an industry day in the coming months to recruit people from the Guysborough, N.S., municipality to work on the project, and Matier said up to 125 will be involved in building the spaceport. He said the company’s work force could grow up to 250 people once the launch pad is operational.Nova Scotia’s Environment Department in March granted the company an 18-month extension to begin construction on the spaceport.
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Good. None of the Irving companies involved. They would go way over budget, deliver it late, and the materials used would be so cheap it would break in space, killing all on board and humiliating the nation.