Colorado Air and Space Port
An illustration of a potential future layout of the Colorado Air and Space Port, the former Front Range Airport near Denver that received an FAA spaceport license Aug. 17.

A Colorado airport has received a commercial spaceport license from the Federal Aviation Administration despite a lack of announced users of the site and concerns about conflicts with aviation.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...