.DavidRompf explores a polarizing initiative to build a rocket-launch site on the edge of Lake Superior.
One of the largest log cabins in the world can be found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the edge of Lake Superior. The property, called Granot Loma, is twenty-six thousand square feet, and it belongs to Tom Baldwin, a sixty-five-year-old former bond and commodities trader. Baldwin made his fortune in the Treasury-bond pit at the Chicago Board of Trade, where his colleagues referred to him as the King. He was known for trading two billion dollars’ worth of bonds in a single day.
Lake Superior is seemingly more ocean than lake. By surface area, it is the largest body of freshwater in the world. If you haven’t seen it up close or from an airplane—and even if you have—it can be difficult to grasp the significance of a lake so immense that it has its own weather systems. Lake Superior could accommodate the combined landmasses of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, and Maryland. Like the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, it provides a wide-open, uninhabited area for launching rockets.
The launch site at Granot Loma would be one part of the spaceport’s commercial enterprise. Businesses that use satellites, such as Amazon, pay aerospace companies a fee to transport their payloads into space, and then those aerospace companies typically pay commercial spaceports for use of their launchpads. . One of’s primary interests—this being Michigan—is the convergence of the space and automotive industries. In speeches, Brown has said that rockets launched from the U.P.
In his speech outside the Marquette Courthouse, Gavin Brown assured the audience that the spaceport plan “will utilize as little change to the terrain as possible,” adding, “We’re going to be stewards of the air, land, and water.” Similarly, Baldwin told me, “I have no interest in harming Lake Superior and the shoreline.
While driving through the area, I saw dozens of “Protect Lake Superior” signs that included a URL for a Web site called StopTheRocket.com. The signs had been nailed to trees, planted in beaches, and staked into the gravel driveways of camps and houses; they also dotted the roadside along Lake Independence, a lake in Powell Township near the Superior shore.
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