UP Aerospace rocket launch
Screenshot of KVIA video of yesterday's failed UP Aerospace launch

Stuff you need to know, 5.2.23

“Spaceport America rocket launch ends in explosion, Celestis and UP Aerospace vow to persevere”
by Jared Ortega, KVIA Channel 7
May 1, 2023

Destroyed moments after liftoff yesterday, the UP Aerospace rocket carried 13 NASA-sponsored student experiments and the cremains of an astronaut and a chemist whose families wanted to send their ashes to space.

Click on the above link to read this free-access article.

“Dust to dust? New Mexicans fight to save old adobe churches
by Giovanna Dell’Orto, Associated Press; posted by The Washington Times
April 30, 2023

Many of New Mexico’s 500 Catholic mission churches are threatened by depopulation, dwindling congregations and fading traditions. What are some communities doing to prevent these historic, anchor buildings from crumbling back into the earth from which they were constructed?

Click on the above link to read this free-access article.

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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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