Unity spacecraft test glide on 4.26.23
The VSS Unity spacecraft did not make a powered flight with its rocket engine on Wednesday, but it cleared the final hurdle before doing so by performing a glide test at the Spaceport. Source: Virgin Galactic

Stuff you need to know, 4.27.23

“Virgin Galactic spaceship glides in New Mexico test flight”
by Chris McKee, KRQE News 13
April 26, 2023

Virgin Galactic says its Unity spacecraft completed a successful test flight yesterday at Spaceport America, calling the test—Unity’s 24th mission—“one of the final steps toward commercial spaceline operations.”

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“‘He opened opportunities for people’: Former Governor Jerry Apodaca passes away”
by Laila Freeman, KRQE News 13
April 26, 2023

New Mexico’s chief executive from 1975 to 1979 and the country’s first Latino governor, Jerry Apodaca passed away yesterday at the age of 88.

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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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