{"id":264934,"date":"2026-04-24T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:32:08","slug":"texas-southern-university-to-open-new-spaceport-facility-in-partnership-with-city-of-houston-airport-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264934\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Southern University to open new spaceport facility in partnership with City of Houston, airport system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Texas Southern University is opening a new spaceport facility at Ellington Airport, built in partnership with the City of Houston and the Houston Airport System.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The facility will provide office and classroom space for on-site instruction, and for the aerospace engineering program, which was approved for development by the Board of Regents in February, TSU said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TSU said the spaceport facility will allow students to gain skills and experience to build careers in corporate, aerospace, and commercial aviation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Houston Airport System previously partnered with San Jacinto College to create the EDGE aerospace workforce development center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Houston Spaceport also has partnerships with Rice University, Texas A&amp;M University, and University of Houston &#8211; Clear Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Texas Southern University is opening a new spaceport facility at Ellington Airport, built in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99185,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-264934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-99185","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}