This is John Bachelor, a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about the Azores.

The Azores now has the potential of having a spaceport, a private company in conjunction with the Portuguese government has

successfully launched two sub-orbitals. What's next? Here's Bob to explain. Everywhere

is spaceport.

More tonight.

Oh, sure.

Look at the map on Behind the Black.

I posted a map to show where this is.

It's in the middle of the Atlantic, quite a distance from Portugal and from the coast of Africa. So you could pretty

much launch in almost any direction and not have to worry about your upper stages or your

first stage of crash landing on not anything but the ocean.

And this company, Atlantic Space Walk Consortium, has already gotten an agreement with the Portuguese

government's aviation authority to do two suborbital

demonstration launches from the island of Santa Maria in the Ozaws.

And they've now successfully done those two suborbital test flights.

And the idea of the test flights was one to demonstrate that this particular

spaceport company can build rockets itself to test also the launch needs that the Portuguese government is going to have to

impose guidelines for future launches so they have done those test

launches and so this is moving forward and you might have a space port out in the Atlantic very soon, John, in a good location.