Article 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 the Las Cruces Sun-News Governor Bill Richardson announced Friday that Taxation and Revenue Secretary Rick Homans will serve as chairman of the Spaceport Authority until a replacement executive director is hired. Homans previously served as Spaceport Authority chairman from 2005-07, before leaving the post for a job in the private sector. Steve [...]
Read MoreArticle Courtesy of Las Cruces Sun-News By Diana M. Alba Spaceport America officials met Wednesday to formally accept the resignation of Spaceport Authority Director Steve Landeene. After a closed-door meeting, they also appointed board Chairman Fred Mondragon, based in Santa Fe, to act as executive director until a replacement is named. Mondragon, also state economic [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of The Las Cruces Bulletin By Todd G. Dickson With construction under way on the 110,152-square-foot Terminal Hangar Facility at Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic’s new space liner took to the skies for the first time carrying its rocket spaceship. On Monday, March 22, Virgin Galactic announced that its commercial manned spaceship, VSS Enterprise, [...]
Read MoreArticle courtesy of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce The Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Space Committee will hold its first 2010 Dona Ana County Spaceport Community Council Meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 26, in the commission chambers at the Dona Ana County Government Center, 845 Motel Blvd. The [...]
Read MoreRelease Courtesy of Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic LAS CRUCES – The world’s first manned commercial spaceship will be unveiled today in Mojave, California, and is projected to be flying from New Mexico’s Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport, in 2011. Today’s debut of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceship is to be attended [...]
Read MoreArticle Courtesy of Spaceport America UPHAM, NM – New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch of a test flight vehicle for Lockheed Martin by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America on Saturday, October 10. The brief test flight was a non-public, unpublished event at the request of Lockheed Martin, who is testing proprietary [...]
Read More“Space Week in Southern New Mexico” is held each year in conjunction with the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, organized by the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium. This year’s events begin with the PSL Leonard R. Sugerman Public Forum, on Tuesday, October 20th beginning at 9:00 a.m. The theme for this year’s event [...]
Read MoreThe Leonard R. Sugerman Public Forum is an annual event to help inform the public about the progress of the commercial space business in Southern New Mexico. This year’s event, “Building a Spaceport Community” is free and open to the public. It will be held on Tuesday, October 20 at the New Mexico Farm and [...]
Read MoreThe 5th Annual International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) will held in Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 21 and 22 at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. This annual conference brings together the current space community, academics, the innovators and entrepreneurs, and the civil and military government communities to discuss [...]
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