Courtesy of Spaceport America The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) Board of Directors approved the award of two new contracts Monday, Sept. 24, moving the spaceport closer to its grand opening in December 2013. The board approved the award of the runway modification contract to A.S. Horner, an Albuquerque-based company that has been doing business [...]
Read MoreCourtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp An agricultural renaissance is taking place in a Columbus, N.M, field that had lain fallow for 40 years. The field, which once grew chile, is now growing a different kind of green. “Green crude” is the nickname Sapphire Energy has given to the end product of [...]
Read MoreRelease courtesy of NMSU News Center WRITER: Linda Fresques, 575-646-7416, lfresque@nmsu.edu CONTACT: Nirmala Khandan, 575-646-5378, nkhandan@nmsu.edu The National Science Foundation has selected a multi-university team from Stanford University, New Mexico State University, Colorado School of Mines and University of California, Berkeley to implement a multi-year Engineering Research Center, with the goal of reinventing America’s aging [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Steve Ramirez Next to the site where America’s space and missile program began more than 60 years ago, NASA technicians were busy Friday preparing for the next generation of space flight. Covered in a yellow thermal blanket to protect it from the wind and spotty rain and to [...]
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