Stuff you need to know, 12.15.23

“New Mexico Spaceport Leaves Economic Dreams Grounded”
by Kurtis Lee, The New York Times
December 15, 2023

“Long a priority of local officials, the desert launchpad is sending tourists into space, but taxpayers and merchants are waiting for the payoff,” summarizes the Times.

Click on the above link to read this gift-access report, datelined Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and illustrated with color photographs of local people and scenes, as well as Virgin Galactic activities at the Spaceport.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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  1. It’s been a long long wait from the building of the Spaceport to the first Virgin Galactic flight. And it doesn’t look like there are going to be many more in the near future. Virgin Galactica got into the space tourism business early but was late in the sophistication of its flights, falling behind both Bezos’ and Musk’s endeavors. But there are other tenants that the Spaceport that I don’t believe were mentioned in the article. And our adventure into space is growing not dying so there is still hope. Additionally I believe there’s a much newer economic impact report that the NYT reporter failed to mention (correct me if I’m wrong). Finally it’s always interesting to note that articles by reporters from The New York Times and other major outlets frequently don’t surpass the work done by some of our local New Mexico people.

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