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Alaska aerospace business again has high hopes dOCTOR ON dUTY
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at Alaska Aerospace’s Dr. Pieterse H
launch site on Kodiak Is- Tel. 583 3330
San Nicolas
land — about 250 air miles Dr. Linden v/d
(402 kilometers) southwest TIME SHARES FOR SALE Tel. 584 6427
of Anchorage in the Gulf Caribbean Palm Village Weeks EMERGENCIA 911
of Alaska — because of week 7 $6,500.00
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the remote site is well-po- garden view
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Craig Campbell, the chief executive officer of Alaska Aero- said Micah Walter-Range, 717 319 9324 +10 accelerated FIRE DEPT. 582-1108
space Corporation, poses for a photo at his office in Anchorage, Sleeps 4 $6,000 HOSPITAL 527-4000
Alaska. Once close to death, Campbell says the state-owned research and analysis di- e-mail: DENTAL CLINIC 587-9850
agency has rebounded after a rocket exploded after a launch rector for the Space Foun- ritchey5652@comcast.net AMBULANCE 582-1234
in 2014, leaving the launch site on Kodiak Island, in Alaska, with dation, a space advocacy IMSAN 524-8833
Women in Difficulties
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Associated Press CEO Craig Campbell said. also presents opportunity, aruba Beach Club wk 22 unit San Nicolas
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When most people think Alaska sought to develop The corporation launched Casa del Mar amb wk 21, 5/27
of Alaska, they picture its its aerospace sector in its first rocket in 1998. It $1,850. also one br cdm unit INFORMATION 118
thick forests, hulking grizzly 1991 as states and private had another 16 launches 1326 wk 29 6/22 school vac. TAXI-TAS 587-5900
bears and soaring, snow- organizations were look- through 2014, when a rock- 7/22 $2,750 or rent $850 PROF. TAXI 588-0035
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What they might not imag- a space industry that had tal Army strike weapon was 508 651 0016 SERVICE AUA 583-3232
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ine is rockets whisking de- once been the domain of blown up after taking off 280-2828
fense and other payloads NASA. Alaska Aerospace from Kodiak Island. All of _________________________________207499 CruiSe SHiP
into space. But America’s now runs one of 10 com- the launches it conducted
northernmost state has mercial launch sites in the were for the federal gov-
that too, entering the high- U.S. that are regulated by ernment, including NASA.
tech aerospace business the Federal Aviation Ad- The blast, which dam-
more than 25 years ago as ministration. Some are co- aged launch site facilities,
it looked to diversify its oil- located with federal facili- proved pivotal, coinciding June 6
reliant economy. ties or have buzzy partner- with a ballooning state def- Carnival Magic
The state-owned Alaska ships. The anchor tenant at icit and a diminished ap- June 7
Aerospace Corp. hit a low New Mexico’s state-owned petite among some Alas- Carnival Splendor
Zenith
point after a rocket explod- Spaceport America is Vir- ka legislators to put more
ed at its launch site in 2014 gin Galactic. state funding toward what Aruba Airport 524-2424
amid a deepening state Campbell is tight-lipped some at that time saw as a UITVERKOOP VAN American Airlines 582-2700
deficit. The governor later about some of the business money-sucking novelty.q BARATILLO/ SALE OF Avianca 588-0059
gave it an ultimatum: Be- orchideeen op stronken / Aruba Airlines 583-8300
588-2244
Jet Blue
come self-sustaining or shut orkideanan riba tronco/ Surinam 582-7896
down. Today, Alaska Aero- orchids on trunks Venezolana 583-7674
space has rebuilt its launch Bij elke aankoop een orchi- Aruba Foundation
site and is again showing dee cadeau/ na tur cumpra un For those Visually Incapasitated
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impressed by the corpora- _________________________________207552
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contracts and its “transfor- Tel. 583-8989
mation.” His budget office QUOTA Club
recently freed $2.2 million Tel. 525-2672
in state money previously
earmarked for the corpo- Women in Difficulties
Foundation
ration for launch site im- Tel. 583-5400
provements.
“Two years ago, we had Bloodbank Aruba
a failed rocket, and we Tel. 587-0002
had a destroyed facility,
and we had no custom-