From Capitol Report New Mexico - A boondoggle or a blessing? Spaceport America generates plenty of debate. For the people of southern New Mexico, there’s a lot riding on its success. It’s early, but the results appear to be mixed as this week, Bloomberg News sent one of its reporters to Doña Ana and Sierra counties to take a look at the project championed by former Gov. Bill Richardson, who predicted Spaceport could create as many as 3,460 jobs in the area. So far, those projections seem overly rosy. But Virgin Atlantic says it’s already signed up 440 people to take suborbital flights at $200,000 a pop. Read more
Aug 1, 2011
Bloomberg News takes a look at Spaceport; Richardson says it’s his “legacy”
From Capitol Report New Mexico - A boondoggle or a blessing? Spaceport America generates plenty of debate. For the people of southern New Mexico, there’s a lot riding on its success. It’s early, but the results appear to be mixed as this week, Bloomberg News sent one of its reporters to Doña Ana and Sierra counties to take a look at the project championed by former Gov. Bill Richardson, who predicted Spaceport could create as many as 3,460 jobs in the area. So far, those projections seem overly rosy. But Virgin Atlantic says it’s already signed up 440 people to take suborbital flights at $200,000 a pop. Read more
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