This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batch. Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here.

This is the final moment of the fun drive for Behind the Black at holiday time. Your subscriptions and donations, most welcome.

In addition, Bob is making available for $200, has signed a copy of

Apollo, the story of Apollo 8, Genesis, and for $250, a hardback of Genesis, the story of

Apollo 8, which I have now and again shortened to Genesis 8, but it's Apollo 8. We're now going to the prospect

of the future with spaceports. There are as many spaceports these days as there are startups.

Bob, this thing is alive. There must be profit in this. I wonder if they're selling luxury boxes to watch blastoffs.

What we've got right now is a lot of places worldwide that want to have space ports.

So I have two stories about spaceports.

These are not in the United States.

Actually, I take that back.

The one is in the United States.

The first has to do with Britain.

Britain has had a competition between two different spaceports,

Sutherland and Saksford up in Scotland.

One spacefords, Sutherland, its main customer, is a company called Auerbex, Rocket Startup.

Well, this week, a major development,

Orbex has given up on Sutherland, at least for now,

and is now going to do its launches out of Saksford.

This indicates it's been trying to get its first launch out of Sutherland now for three years.

It has not been able to get a launch license from the Civil Aviation Authority.

And so this week, they announced they're going to pause any effort to launch out of sullen and then they'll instead go out of saxford which has got its licenses finally and uh this indicates once again that the summer of pressure from activists and a local billionaire who

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