The space industry has welcomed some new, private players over the past several years, with SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic among the firms working on space travel.

That means there's been talks about potential launch sites for those rockets. Could Arizona be one of them?

To talk about that, The Show reached out to Kaela Martin, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott.

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