Liftoff on Dec. 15 in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Astra’s rocket reaches space after its Dec. 15 launch. (Photo/Courtesy/Astra) An engineer works at The Launch Company’s shop. (Photo/Courtesy/The Launch Company) The PSCA Launch Site in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Nighttime lights at the PSCA before the Dec. 15 launch attempt. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Forty miles from the City of Kodiak sits the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, only one of four places to launch a rocket into orbit from the United States, and where, just a week ago on Dec. 15, California-based Astra became the third private company in the country to send an orbital-class rocket into space.