I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Even though the terminal-hangar that will serve as the operational base for Virgin Galactic is slated for completion later this year, space travelers will have to wait at least two more years before experiencing zero-gravity aboard the commercial aircrafts.
The…
With the construction of a “spaceport” underway in the southern New Mexico town of Upham, NASA has made moves to take advantage of the new flight center by striking a $4.5 million contract agreement with owners Virgin Galactic.
NPR reports on America’s first private “spaceport” under construction in the southern New Mexico town of Upham. Spaceport America was supposed to be finished by early 2011, and the state has put $200 million into the project.
So Virgin Galactic unveiled on Monday its long-awaited SpaceShipTwo – the craft it plans to use to ferry paying passengers into suborbital space from Spaceport America. The big question now: When will we see it fly?
It’s been five years since SpaceShipOne won the first Ansari X Prize and proved that commercial vehicles have a future in outer space. But the move to actually commercialize space hasn’t been as quick as those trying to make it…
With contentious debates about how to fund Spaceport America behind them, government officials gathered at New Mexico State University Thursday evening for the first of three celebrations of the facility’s official groundbreaking.
Santa Fe New Mexican politics reporter Steve Terrell has a blog post today that concludes the grudge between the Clintons and Gov. Bill Richardson is still going strong.
More than 350 people have signed up to attend Saturday’s educational launch from Spaceport America. Officials say that’s evidence that, as the project progresses from a proposal to reality, excitement is building. “Everybody senses that it’s actually real,” spaceport Executive Director Steve Landeene said.
OK, sign me up for space travel.
This just in from Gov. Bill Richardson’s press office: Virgin Galactic has signed a 20-year lease agreement with New Mexico.
That’s a big step toward Richardson’s repeatedly stated hopes for a spaceport…
