With an agreement to option more than 4,000 acres for a spaceport site, Camden County has taken one big step in its spaceport project.
Commission Chairman Jimmy Starline calls it the first.
The commissioners voted unanimously last week to pay $960,000 for a two-year option to buy the Union Carbide property at the east end of Harrietts Bluff Road. That site suits a spaceport because vehicles launched from there do not need to pass over inhabited land areas.