WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.8 million grant to the.
The federal grant to the Maine Space Grant Consortium, with matching local money, will support developing a strategic plan for the Maine Spaceport Complex, just as bluShift Aerospace plans its first rocket launch on Oct. 21 in Presque Isle.