PLANE—SITE, a global agency specializing in full-cycle content strategy, has released its new video exploring commercial space travels to understand better the internal dynamism of commercial space flights. 

Released as part of AERIAL FUTURES: The Next Frontier, a broader research initiative, the 6-min video gives a closer look at Houston Spaceport.

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Reiterating Houston’s long-standing relationship with space travel, Ellington Airport will soon be home to the Houston Spaceport. The Spaceport is within a 15-minute drive of the central business district, making it the most urban commercial spaceport to date and positioning Houston as the most cosmically connected city in the world. 

A new short video from AERIAL FUTURES explores the spaceport as a new kind of architectural typology, and asks what kind of impact a spaceport is likely to have on the city and its population.

Image courtesy of AERIAL FUTURES

The commercial sector is now driving the aeronautical industry, leading to an upsurge in spaceport construction. The implications of this new typology for urban life are huge: in support of the new spaceport and its operations, Houston City Council recently approved an $18.8 million Phase 1 infrastructure development budget. 

This sum of spaceport-related infrastructure funding is without parallel anywhere else in the world. New roads, drainage systems and utilities will provide a foundation for aeronautical businesses and foster engineering activities, while providing a physical and intellectual link to aerospace expertise.

Image courtesy of AERIAL FUTURES

AERIAL FUTURES is a non-profit organization exploring innovation in the architecture of flight, technology, and the broader urban mobility ecosystem. Through symposia, think tanks and salons, AERIAL FUTURES sparks in-person and interdisciplinary conversations amongst leading thinkers, makers, and operators in a format that surfaces both collective and contrarian perspectives on our shared future.

Top image courtesy of Houston Airport System

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