Article courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – Squeezing in a stop here while en route to London, Virgin Galactic’s president and CEO told spaceport officials Tuesday that the company remains committed to basing its suborbital flight operations in New Mexico. George Whitesides addressed the new board of directors [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – Spaceport America Director Rick Homans announced his resignation Wednesday, saying he’d been ordered to do so by the Gov. Susana Martinez administration. Some Spaceport America board members expressed concern about Martinez’s move and questioned whether Homans’ departure was good for the $209 [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba LAS CRUCES – Spaceport America’s anchor tenant company, Virgin Galactic, announced recently it’s partnering with two other companies that have their sights set on orbital spaceflight. The other companies, Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp. and the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp., have submitted competing bids to NASA [...]
Read MoreRelease courtesy of Spaceport America LAS CRUCES, NM — The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for the day-to-day operations of Spaceport America, announced Rick Homans, Executive Director of the NMSA. “Issuing these RFPs represents another major milestone on the path toward serving commercial spaceflight companies at Spaceport America,” Homans [...]
Read MoreRelease courtesy of the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium LAS CRUCES, NM – The International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) is a ‘go’ at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum from October 20 through 21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The symposium will feature industry experts and renowned speakers discussing the [...]
Read MoreRelease courtesy of Spaceport America LAS CRUCES, NM – Officials from Spaceport America congratulate today’s historic vote by the House of Representatives that sets a new direction for NASA that assigns a primary role to the commercial space industry. “This legislation marks a major turning point for the U.S. Space program, and means we will [...]
Read MoreRelease courtesy of Spaceport America LAS CRUCES, NM – Spaceport America has received its first federal grant from a newly funded spaceport infrastructure program at the Federal Aviation Administration. The funding, $43,000 from the FAA matched with $4,300 from Virgin Galactic, will allow for the acquisition of an Automated Weather Observation System III (AWOS III). [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Brook Stockberger LAS CRUCES – If you’ve been following the news about Spaceport America, you know that construction has been well under way. The mythical-sounding place where humans can pay to take a ride into space – and, less mythical but probably more common, where companies can launch [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin By Todd G. Dickson Armadillo Aerospace – which has been the leader in developing rocket technology for vehicles to take off and land vertically – will be conducting three NASA-funded tests this winter at Spaceport America. Programmer John Carmack, who made his fortune creating computer games such as [...]
Read MoreThe Commercial Space Committee of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce will host the next public Community Council Meeting on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the Las Cruces City Hall Council Chambers, 700 N. Main. The meeting will begin with refreshments from 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Spaceport America Executive Director Rick Homans will be [...]
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