Showing posts with label spaceport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spaceport. Show all posts
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Spaceport offers jobs during construction
www.KOB.com - Spaceport offers jobs during construction:
"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A project director for Spaceport America says the first of 13 bid packages for construction of the nation's first inland commercial facility for orbital flights will be released in about two weeks.
John Roberts says all 13 bid packages will be released by June. Roberts says the construction of the facility is going to be very fast-paced. He says the major tenant, Virgin Galactic, wants to be ready to launch by December 2010.
Roberts spoke at a public meeting in Dona Ana County attended by about 260 people, who are interested in construction work and other jobs.
Spaceport America spokesman Dave Wilson says two other public meetings, in Hatch and Anthony, had about 110 attendees total.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)"
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Experimental Spaceships: New Mexico Spaceport is the new Area 51
If you're looking for the latest in hush-hush experimental test flights, look no further than the new Spaceport America in Truth or Consequences, NM. Last week local radio station KRQE in Albuquerque reported that Lockheed Martin is running a shadowy operation out of the port, and even got a hold of some pictures of the new reusable, rocket-powered craft. There's no word yet on plans to test co-opted alien technologies.
Experimental Spaceships: New Mexico Spaceport is the new Area 51
Whether or not Spaceport America ever becomes the first Earthly landing strip for interstellar visitors is still up for grabs (some would argue that title goes to Roswell, NM, 200 miles to the east). For now the fledgling base is content to host "domestic" flights only, with space tourism runs planned to start as early as next year. Here's what the prototype looks like, and a snippet from the KRQE article discusses the possibility of military testing on the way:
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