<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114</id><updated>2011-10-03T22:41:23.925-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pulsar</title><subtitle type='html'>The source on the New Space Race in New Mexico</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>44</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-584289825885479663</id><published>2007-05-31T13:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T13:36:43.175-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Green Tourism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8w6mlUi4I/AAAAAAAAABE/sBrJJIWLNIE/s1600-h/Alien+Zone+street+scene.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070825488790096770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8w6mlUi4I/AAAAAAAAABE/sBrJJIWLNIE/s320/Alien+Zone+street+scene.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Back in January, we reported on the possibility of a theme park in Roswell, New Mexico. Now, media in the United States, Australia, and Britain are abuzz with news that the city has received a legislative appropriation of $245,000 for the initial planning of Alien Apex Resort, a bona fide UFO-themed amusement park. “Eventually, when people come to Roswell, they’re not going to have enough time to do everything they want to do. That’s our goal,” Roswell City Planner Zach Montgomery told the &lt;em&gt;Sydney Morning Herald Online&lt;/em&gt;. For now, Roswell is the site of the 1947 Roswell Incident, the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and numerous alien-theme shops and restaurants. Alien enthusiasts will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Roswell Incident at this year’s &lt;a href="http://www.roswellufofestival.com/"&gt;Roswell UFO Festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;July 5-8, 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Read the Associated Press story at &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/27/ufo.park.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories"&gt;CNN.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May26/0,4670,UFOThemePark,00.html"&gt;Fox News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/05/the_daily_planet_in_the_beginn.html"&gt;Sydney Morning Herald Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007467315"&gt;All Headline News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-584289825885479663?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/584289825885479663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=584289825885479663&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/584289825885479663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/584289825885479663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/05/green-tourism.html' title='Green Tourism'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8w6mlUi4I/AAAAAAAAABE/sBrJJIWLNIE/s72-c/Alien+Zone+street+scene.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-2063104329194897540</id><published>2007-05-31T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T10:28:46.405-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fly Like a Butterfly?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8FmWlUi3I/AAAAAAAAAA8/5CFV_IkhjA4/s1600-h/pixel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070777861897751410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8FmWlUi3I/AAAAAAAAAA8/5CFV_IkhjA4/s400/pixel.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;While Armadillo Aerospace’s John Carmack isn’t exactly claming his lunar vehicle Pixel can “fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” he was doing some Ali-style bragging about the upcoming Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, to be held at the Wirefly X Prize Cup, October 26 – 28 in Alamogordo and Las Cruces, New Mexico. At last week’s International Space Development Conference in Dallas, he told MSNBC’s Alan Boyle, “It will take very bad luck for us not to win.” At present, nine teams have applied to compete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blogitemurl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-2063104329194897540?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/05/25/204625.aspx' title='Fly Like a Butterfly?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/2063104329194897540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=2063104329194897540&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/2063104329194897540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/2063104329194897540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/05/fly-like-butterfly.html' title='Fly Like a Butterfly?'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rl8FmWlUi3I/AAAAAAAAAA8/5CFV_IkhjA4/s72-c/pixel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-8239508850409882823</id><published>2007-05-18T14:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T14:17:32.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Scotty" Returns to Terra Firma</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rk4UMXCBjTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Dr3RWBGIn5E/s1600-h/up+launch+II.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066008833411878194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rk4UMXCBjTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Dr3RWBGIn5E/s320/up+launch+II.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The final chapter in the saga of the successful April 28 launch from Spaceport America was written today when reseachers recovered the payload capsule of the Spaceloft XL rocket in the New Mexico mountains, SPACE.com reports. The capsule contained ashes of actor James Doohan, best known for portraying "Scotty" on &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;. Also in the capsule were ashes of NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper and 200 others. The rocket completed its mission of shooting the payload into space, which then safely parachuted back to Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/blogitemurl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-8239508850409882823?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.space.com/news/070518_upaerospace_ashesfound.html' title='&quot;Scotty&quot; Returns to Terra Firma'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/8239508850409882823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=8239508850409882823&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/8239508850409882823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/8239508850409882823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/05/scotty-returns-to-terra-firma.html' title='&quot;Scotty&quot; Returns to Terra Firma'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rk4UMXCBjTI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Dr3RWBGIn5E/s72-c/up+launch+II.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-6912530281633889181</id><published>2007-04-06T10:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T10:25:03.794-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Higher Purpose: Voters Approve Tax to Finance Spaceport America</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/RhaCP3njXoI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aE48Bq4X9wM/s1600-h/Lewis+Cain+Ranch+HQ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050367241282084482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/RhaCP3njXoI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aE48Bq4X9wM/s400/Lewis+Cain+Ranch+HQ.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The United States and United Kingdom are abuzz today with news that residents of New Mexico’s Dona Ana County approved a .25 percent increase in gross receipts tax to help fund construction of Spaceport America. The tax is expected to generate $50 million. Without the tax, Spaceport America would not be possible. Spaceport America will be built on high-desert rangeland (pictured above) outside the town of Truth or Consequences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more in the &lt;em&gt;Washinton Post&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501905.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040501905.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Read more from the BBC: &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6532383.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6532383.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blogitemurl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-6912530281633889181?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/6912530281633889181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=6912530281633889181&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/6912530281633889181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/6912530281633889181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/04/higher-purpose-voters-approve-tax-to.html' title='Higher Purpose: Voters Approve Tax to Finance Spaceport America'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/RhaCP3njXoI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aE48Bq4X9wM/s72-c/Lewis+Cain+Ranch+HQ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-6891293577656820493</id><published>2007-04-03T14:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-03T14:51:42.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Local Election Creates National Buzz</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today, voters in Dona Ana county go to the polls to decide whether or not to impose a one-fourth of one percent sales tax to help finance Spaceport America and related math and science education. Typically, this sort of thing is a local story, but with the country's eye on New Mexico, it has made national news. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Read more from the &lt;em&gt;Washington Post&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href="http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501385.html?sub=new"&gt;http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501385.html?sub=new&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Or listen via National Public Radio: &lt;a href="http://http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9269312"&gt;http://http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9269312&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-6891293577656820493?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/6891293577656820493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=6891293577656820493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/6891293577656820493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/6891293577656820493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/04/local-election-creates-national-buzz.html' title='Local Election Creates National Buzz'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-2598255915887849686</id><published>2007-02-23T15:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T15:53:11.201-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Commercial Space: It's About Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rd9vqg4us-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/rcna2xo3KH4/s1600-h/time+cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034865684596569058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rd9vqg4us-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/rcna2xo3KH4/s320/time+cover.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Yesterday, Time.com published "Space Cowboys," an in-depth business story on the New Space Race, covering every player from promiment Virgin Galactic to secretive Benson Space Co. About the Land of Enchatment, &lt;em&gt;Time&lt;/em&gt; says: "New Mexico sees itself as a Silicon Valley of space, a place where an industry cluster could develop, absorbing investment and throwing off jobs as it does. When state economic-development secretary Rick Homans, chairman of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, saw the list of global companies participating in the X Prize in 2004, he says it suddenly dawned on him that the new space industry might look like the early computer industry--a bunch of crazy guys. 'They start with chaotic, crazy inventors and entrepreneurs--colorful characters. . .'" The story is also featured prominently in the March 5, 2007 print edition, pictured above.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/blogitemurl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-2598255915887849686?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1592834,00.html' title='Commercial Space: It&apos;s About Time'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/2598255915887849686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=2598255915887849686&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/2598255915887849686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/2598255915887849686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/02/commercial-space-its-about-time.html' title='Commercial Space: It&apos;s About Time'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Gt4nhIh4b5k/Rd9vqg4us-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/rcna2xo3KH4/s72-c/time+cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-116778130336520530</id><published>2007-01-02T16:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-18T02:35:02.573-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Seeing Green</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/1600/835485/Roswell%20MainSt-cropped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/400/943202/Roswell%20MainSt-cropped.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you reading this, Orlando? Roswell, New Mexico, already boasts the world’s only UFO museum plus downtown streetlamps shaped like aliens. Now, the city is ready to take its tourism to the next level and is in early talks about an extraterrestrial-themed amusement park, reports United Press International."This is not a guaranteed project but it has gone farther than any other theme park that has been considered for the city of Roswell, and it's looking very positive," said Roswell City Planning Director Zachary Montgomery late last week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-116778130336520530?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061229-024428-9175r' title='Seeing Green'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/116778130336520530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=116778130336520530&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116778130336520530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116778130336520530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2007/01/seeing-green.html' title='Seeing Green'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-116595474041044729</id><published>2006-12-12T13:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-21T20:00:09.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Directions for Next Year’s X Prize Cup</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/1600/587805/hatch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/400/791194/hatch.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things are looking up for the 2007 Wirefly X Prize Cup. The 2006 event was such a success that officials are prepared to expand the event’s offerings and locations. With a goal of flying more vehicles faster and farther, the world’s premier personal spaceflight expo could expand to White Sands and Alamogordo. Read more: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=d1fea7a3-8cae-488a-adbc-45f408480335"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://"http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=d1fea7a3-8cae-488a-adbc-45f408480335"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-116595474041044729?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/116595474041044729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=116595474041044729&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116595474041044729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116595474041044729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-directions-for-next-years-x-prize.html' title='New Directions for Next Year’s X Prize Cup'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-116595372068191987</id><published>2006-12-12T12:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T13:15:52.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reinventing Flight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/1600/701657/wright%20brothers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/320/593737/wright%20brothers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The home of the Wright Brothers may take an existing airport to the next level, equipping it for reusable launch vehicles and joining the New Space Race. A few days ago, Ohio announced it was considering early plans for a spaceport. PlanetSpace—an organization that includes the minds behind X Prize contenders Canadian Arrow--would be the anchor tenants in this venture Read more: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15993507/"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15993507/"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-116595372068191987?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/116595372068191987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=116595372068191987&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116595372068191987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116595372068191987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/12/reinventing-flight.html' title='Reinventing Flight'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-116594900984993987</id><published>2006-12-12T11:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T13:03:33.386-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas in the Air</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/1600/759372/virgin_galactic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5381/2139/320/99204/virgin_galactic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Virgin Galactic makes headlines again. This time, it’s the legendary Neiman Marcus holiday catalog, where $1.7 million buys a trip to space and a splashdown (figuratively speaking) at Richard Branson’s Necker Island. Read more:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/consumer/neiman_marcus/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/consumer/neiman_marcus/index.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-116594900984993987?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/116594900984993987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=116594900984993987&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116594900984993987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/116594900984993987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-in-air.html' title='Christmas in the Air'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-115680542999779426</id><published>2006-08-28T15:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T17:20:00.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>X Prize Cup Tickets On Sale Now</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/webgallery550x374canadianro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/webgallery550x374canadianro.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tickets for the X Prize Cup, October 20-21 in Las Cruces, are on sale now. This year's flagship event is the Lunar Lander Challenge, with a overall purse of $2 million. To learn more or buy tickets: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xprizecup.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.xprizecup.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-115680542999779426?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/115680542999779426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=115680542999779426&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115680542999779426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115680542999779426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/08/x-prize-cup-tickets-on-sale-now.html' title='X Prize Cup Tickets On Sale Now'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-115316648011134155</id><published>2006-07-17T12:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T08:08:42.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Marketplace Looks to Spaceport America</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/spaceport%20logo.1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/400/spaceport%20logo.1.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spaceport America is the official name of New Mexico's spaceport, Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Rick Homans announced this morning at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. The event is attended by thousands of people from around the world. Homans also unveiled the project's new website: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceportamerica.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.spaceportamerica.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-115316648011134155?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/115316648011134155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=115316648011134155&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115316648011134155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115316648011134155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/07/global-marketplace-looks-to-spaceport.html' title='Global Marketplace Looks to Spaceport America'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-115316595467514763</id><published>2006-07-17T12:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-12T08:09:53.163-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Launch Rescheduled</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The UP Aerospace launch has now been rescheduled for September 5. The commercial space entrepreneurs Eric Knight and Jerry Larson are just waiting for a rocket motor casing that has yet to be delivered. A second launch is expected to follow soon after, with a third at the X Prize Cup October 18-21, 2006 in Las Cruces.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-115316595467514763?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/115316595467514763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=115316595467514763&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115316595467514763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115316595467514763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/07/launch-rescheduled.html' title='Launch Rescheduled'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-115264136263232103</id><published>2006-07-11T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T14:33:56.573-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Mexico Takes World Stage in Farnborough, England</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/Farnboroughweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/Farnboroughweb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June’s announcement that DMJM will provide architectural and engineering services for our spaceport cements &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Mexico’s position as the frontrunner on the path to building the world’s first purpose-built, commercial spaceport. “The announcement means we are officially moving beyond just talking about the Spaceport,” stated Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Rick Homans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, New Mexico is taking it to the next level. On Monday, July 17 at the &lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;Farnborough International Airshow&lt;/span&gt; in England, Secretary Homans will unveil a new brand and a new name for the world’s leading spaceport project. Farnborough is one the largest aerospace tradeshows in the world. Stay tuned to Pulsar as we cover the most monumental spaceport development yet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-115264136263232103?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/115264136263232103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=115264136263232103&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115264136263232103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115264136263232103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-mexico-takes-world-stage-in.html' title='New Mexico Takes World Stage in Farnborough, England'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-115263693765252133</id><published>2006-07-11T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-11T22:52:55.106-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Countdown Begins</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/up%20aerospace%20launch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/up%20aerospace%20launch.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UP Aerospace will launch the first rocket from New Mexico's spaceport on August 14, 2006. The rocket will carry private and educational experiments and payloads. The launch will take place from a temporary facility in the spaceport area. Read more: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.space.com/news/060629_spaceport_launch.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.space.com/news/060629_spaceport_launch.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-115263693765252133?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/115263693765252133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=115263693765252133&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115263693765252133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/115263693765252133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/07/countdown-begins.html' title='The Countdown Begins'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114857155114020948</id><published>2006-05-25T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-28T20:24:52.336-07:00</updated><title type='text'>You Are Here</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/spaceportsign.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/spaceportsign.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last night on &lt;em&gt;CBS Evening News&lt;/em&gt;, EDD Cabinet Secretary Rick Homans, Governor Bill Richardson, and Sir Richard Branson shared with correspondent Anthony Mason their vision for the future of space travel and for New Mexico’s spaceport. "We're betting on the second Space Age,” said Homans. “ We're betting this is going to be the launch pad and incubator for an industry that puts man in space to live, work, and play."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go with Rick Homans and Anthony Mason to the site of New Mexico’s spaceport:&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn more, and see animated footage of how it might look:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/eveningnews/main1652739.shtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/eveningnews/main1652739.shtml&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114857155114020948?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114857155114020948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114857155114020948&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114857155114020948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114857155114020948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/you-are-here.html' title='You Are Here'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114798364098156928</id><published>2006-05-18T12:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-25T07:20:10.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Visit to New Mexico's Spaceport</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/anthony%20mason.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/200/anthony%20mason.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visit the site of New Mexico's proposed spaceport via &lt;em&gt;CBS Evening News&lt;/em&gt; on&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Wednesday, May 24&lt;/span&gt;. CBS Business correspendant Anthony Mason recently visited the spaceport location 30 miles east of Truth or Consequences with camera crew in tow. Locals can watch the segment on KRQE Channel 13 at 5 pm MDT. We'll keep you posted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114798364098156928?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114798364098156928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114798364098156928&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798364098156928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798364098156928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/virtual-visit-to-new-mexicos-spaceport_18.html' title='Virtual Visit to New Mexico&apos;s Spaceport'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114798102099969879</id><published>2006-05-18T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:38:40.263-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pop Quiz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/spaceport%20singapore.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/spaceport%20singapore.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The image above is:&lt;br /&gt;a) a set design for the upcoming movie &lt;em&gt;X Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;b) cover art for the 50th Anniversary Edition of Aldous Huxley’s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brave New World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;c) an artist’s concept of a bona fide spaceport, proposed to be built in Singapore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, the correct answer is C. Since New Mexico announced its plans to build its proposed spaceport last December, trends point to what pundits like EDD Cabinet Secretary Rick Homans and Scaled Composites’ Burt Rutan have been saying from the beginning: commercial space isn’t just about New Mexico. It’s a new global industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Space.com and MSNBC are ready to tell you more:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060517tech_spaceport.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060517tech_spaceport.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12835483/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12835483&lt;/strong&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114798102099969879?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114798102099969879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114798102099969879&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798102099969879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798102099969879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/pop-quiz.html' title='Pop Quiz'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114798066156403278</id><published>2006-05-18T12:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:39:58.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What’s Next? Spaceport Madagascar?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/lemurs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/lemurs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Even the lemurs express wide-eyed disbelief. . . but seriously, before the rumors start, NO ONE is planning a spaceport on this island off the coast of Africa. However, from Singapore to Sheboygan (and no, we’re not making that up), spaceport proposals are on the rise. While New Mexico officials review architects’ designs and expect to announce a winner this summer, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin, Singapore, and Dubai make their own plans to blast off. The story by Associated Press writer Alicia Chang has been picked up by USA Today, MSNBC, and CNN, among others. Read more: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-14-spaceports_x.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-14-spaceports_x.htm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12746930/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12746930/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/05/16/space.port.boom.ap/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/05/16/space.port.boom.ap/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114798066156403278?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114798066156403278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114798066156403278&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798066156403278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114798066156403278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/whats-next-spaceport-madagascar.html' title='What’s Next? Spaceport Madagascar?'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114746320212234895</id><published>2006-05-12T12:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T03:54:27.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Bang: The Evolution of New Space</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/explosion_space.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/explosion_space.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X Prize Chairman Peter Diamandis says the commercial spaceflight industry is experiencing a “Darwinian explosion” of suborbital designs, reports the &lt;em&gt;Economist&lt;/em&gt;. At this week’s International Space Development Conference, which just wrapped up in L.A., vehicles as diverse as XCOR Aerospace’s Xerus, Rocketplane’s Rocketplane XP, and Blue Origin’s New Shepherd were topics of discussion. Also touted in the article: October’s X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. “All this suggests that spaceflight, if not exactly entering the age of the common man, is at least entering the age of the moderately prosperous enthusiast,” says the magazine. Read the full story:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6911220"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6911220&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114746320212234895?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114746320212234895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114746320212234895&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114746320212234895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114746320212234895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/big-bang-evolution-of-new-space.html' title='Big Bang: The Evolution of New Space'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114685238687606443</id><published>2006-05-05T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T14:53:25.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Back to the Future</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/lunar-lander-smaller.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/lunar-lander-smaller.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;NASA is ready to put people on the moon (again) in the next decade. To that end, the organization has collaborated with the X Prize Foundation to offer a prize for a new kind of lunar vehicle. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teams are now invited to compete for the Lunar Lander Challenge, MSNBC and The Guardian reported today. Prizes totaling $2.5 million will be awarded teams who can simulate trips between the moon and low lunar orbit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Level 1 requires a craft to take off from a designated launch area, rocket up to 150 feet altitude, hover for 90 seconds, and land precisely on a landing pad 100 meters away. Level 2 ups the ante to a 180-second hover period and a landing on a rocky, simulated lunar surface. Demonstrations are planned for the 2006 X Prize Cup, October 18-21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Read more on MSNBC: &lt;a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12638904/"&gt;http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12638904/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Read more in The Gudardian: &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1768276,00.html"&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1768276,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Learn more about attending the X Prize Cup: &lt;a href="http://www.xpcup.com/index.cfm?goto=2006_x_prize_cup.default"&gt;http://www.xpcup.com/index.cfm?goto=2006_x_prize_cup.default&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114685238687606443?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114685238687606443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114685238687606443&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114685238687606443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114685238687606443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/back-to-future.html' title='Back to the Future'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114685210851953780</id><published>2006-05-05T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:41:01.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gearing Up for the X Prize Cup</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/x-cup-copy-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/x-cup-copy-web.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Events are already taking shape for the 2006 X Prize Cup, October 18-21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Cup’s flagship event is the $2.5 million Lunar Lander Challenge, a collaboration between the X Prize Foundation and NASA. Also slated are G-force simulators, real spaceships on site, and interactive experiences with robots. To learn more, visit:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xpcup.com/index.cfm?goto=2006_x_prize_cup.default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.xpcup.com/index.cfm?goto=2006_x_prize_cup.default&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114685210851953780?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114685210851953780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114685210851953780&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114685210851953780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114685210851953780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/gearing-up-for-x-prize-cup.html' title='Gearing Up for the X Prize Cup'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114660060906571766</id><published>2006-05-02T13:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:41:27.020-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From the Ground Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/structure-one.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/structure-one.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experts are installing basic infrastructure at the New Mexico spaceport site 30 miles east of Truth or Consequences. Meanwhile, architects are putting the finishing touches on their proposals for the spaceport's design. (Proposals are due to New Mexico officials on Tuesday, May 9.) Next, the proposals will be scored and judged, and the design is expected to be announced this summer. Some hints on what to expect: The state-issued request for proposal says "The look and feel of the spaceport should be remarkable and memorable. . . [it] should be a model for environmentally sensitive construction and include options for renewable energy as a power source."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114660060906571766?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114660060906571766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114660060906571766&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114660060906571766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114660060906571766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/from-ground-up.html' title='From the Ground Up'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114659950142403773</id><published>2006-05-02T10:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:41:44.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Meeting of the Minds</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/downtown-l.a.-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/downtown-l.a.-web.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leaders in the New Space Race--including Economic Development's own Cabinet Secretary, Rick Homans--converge on Los Angeles May 4 for the International Space Development Conference. It's an impressive line-up including the first space tourist Dennis Tito; officials from NASA like Shana Dale and Charles Elachi; astronaut Buzz Aldrin; entrepreneurs like Burt Rutan, Elon Musk, Will Whitehorn, and Amir Ansari; X Prize Chairman Dr. Peter Diamandis; astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson; and television personalities Hugh Downs and Bill Nye "the Science Guy". The conference lasts until May 7 and covers topics like exploration, tourism, science, technology, policy, and commerce. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114659950142403773?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114659950142403773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114659950142403773&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114659950142403773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114659950142403773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/05/meeting-of-minds.html' title='Meeting of the Minds'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114177150781481423</id><published>2006-03-07T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:42:05.853-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Entrepreneur's Guide to the Galaxy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/business2.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/business2.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Business 2.0&lt;/em&gt; focuses on stellar space investments in a series of articles found in its March 2006 issue. These stories are among the most succinct and insightful we've seen about space and private industry. Highlights include: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"Prepare for liftoff: The space business may be the most incredible new opportunity of your lifetime" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/27/technology/business2_guidetospaceintro/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/27/technology/business2_guidetospaceintro/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"To land humans on the Red Planet, NASA will need new equipment, fresh thinking, and advanced technology. These companies are preparing for mankind's next giant leap."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/magazines/business2/cashinginmars/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/magazines/business2/cashinginmars/index.htm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114177150781481423?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114177150781481423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114177150781481423&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114177150781481423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114177150781481423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/03/entrepreneurs-guide-to-galaxy.html' title='Entrepreneur&apos;s Guide to the Galaxy'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114176877208515896</id><published>2006-03-07T14:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:47:33.446-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Year of the Dragon?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/dragon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/dragon.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looks like t/Space has some competition. SpaceX, the brainchild of PayPal mogul Elon Musk, has also thrown its hat in the ring to win the NASA contract for transporting passengers and payload to space. The company's manned orbital spacecraft is called the Dragon. Should t/Space win the contract, the company has pledged to base the project's operations at New Mexico's spaceport. To date, SpaceX is happily headquartered in El Segundo, CA. Read more at MSNBC: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11699810/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11699810/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; . SpaceRef.com also features some dandy illustrations &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1095"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1095&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114176877208515896?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114176877208515896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114176877208515896&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114176877208515896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114176877208515896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/03/year-of-dragon.html' title='Year of the Dragon?'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114133515328009448</id><published>2006-03-02T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:42:36.020-07:00</updated><title type='text'>He signed you, Bill! Now you're a law!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/bill.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/200/bill.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oh yeah!&lt;/em&gt; Schoolhouse Rock afficionados (and even some government officials) know how this works: first, the senate and house vote on a bill, then it's signed by the executive. Though Governor Richardson has been a proponent of New Mexico's spaceport from the beginning, yesterday's bill signings make it final. New Mexico has passed the laws necessary to create the world's first purpose-built spaceport. In Las Cruces, Richardson signed House Bill 89 establishing the New Mexico Spaceport Authority and House Bill 473 allowing communities to increase gross receipts tax to support the spaceport.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114133515328009448?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114133515328009448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114133515328009448&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114133515328009448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114133515328009448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/03/he-signed-you-bill-now-you_114133515328009448.html' title='He signed you, Bill! Now you&apos;re a law!'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114107946301936955</id><published>2006-02-27T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:42:57.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Mexico, NASA Plan Co-investment</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/diagram.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/diagram.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last week, an advisory committee for the New Mexico State Investment Council recommended investing in t/Space, a private company bidding on a contract to build a new, commercially run space transport system that will assume some of the Space Shuttle’s duties. (Illustrated in NASA’s diagram above.) If t/Space wins the contract, the Virgina-based firm intends to build its crew exploration vehicle at New Mexico’s spaceport.&lt;br /&gt;Currently, NASA is conducting a competitive bid process, and nearly 100 private companies have expressed interest. The New Mexico SIC’s investment is contingent on t/Space winning the contract. Nevertheless, many companies in the running are interested in building and testing their spacecraft in New Mexico.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114107946301936955?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114107946301936955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114107946301936955&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114107946301936955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114107946301936955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-mexico-nasa-plan-co-investment.html' title='New Mexico, NASA Plan Co-investment'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114071856858887588</id><published>2006-02-23T11:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T12:43:18.873-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fly Me to the Moon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/moon.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/moon.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those X Prize guys are at it again. This time it's the $2 million prize for the Lunar Lander Challenge. To win, a team must demonstrate a spacecraft capable of vertical takeoff and vertical landing. The contest is expected to take place at the October X Prize Cup in Las Cruces. Read the contest rules at: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xprizefoundation.com/news/LunarLanding.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.xprizefoundation.com/news/LunarLanding.asp&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114071856858887588?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114071856858887588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114071856858887588&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114071856858887588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114071856858887588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/fly-me-to-moon.html' title='Fly Me to the Moon'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114056064703742604</id><published>2006-02-21T15:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-02-22T14:35:15.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fade to Black</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/scotty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/scotty.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Television star James Doohan, who portrayed Montogmery Scott on &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, will make his first bonafide journey to space in March. Doohan, or rather his ashes (he died in July 2005), will be blasted into space, courtesy of Space Services of Houston, Texas. More than 100 others have signed up for the service as well. Read more on USAToday.com: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-02-20-space-remains_x.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-02-20-space-remains_x.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114056064703742604?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114056064703742604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114056064703742604&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114056064703742604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114056064703742604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/fade-to-black.html' title='Fade to Black'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114055999112959904</id><published>2006-02-21T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-02-21T15:13:11.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Space Adventures in Singapore</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Commercial Space travel is officially a global phenomenon. First, Britian’s Richard Branson announced his plans to make New Mexico, USA, the world headquarters for Virgin Galactic. Now, U.S. entrepreneurs at Space Adventures in Arlington, VA, have made public their plans for spaceports in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore. Today, the Singapore announcment makes headlines with more than 30 news organizations worldwide, among them, &lt;em&gt;London’s Financial Times&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Washington Business Journal&lt;/em&gt;, Cnn.com, and ChinaView.cn . Read for yourself: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Financial Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.ft.com/cms/s/35f4cdda-a24a-11da-9096-0000779e2340.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://news.ft.com/cms/s/35f4cdda-a24a-11da-9096-0000779e2340.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Washington Business Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/02/20/daily1.html?from_rss=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/02/20/daily1.html?from_rss=1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;CNN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/20/space.tourism.ap/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/20/space.tourism.ap/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;China View&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/20/content_4204632.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/20/content_4204632.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114055999112959904?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114055999112959904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114055999112959904&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114055999112959904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114055999112959904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/space-adventures-in-singapore.html' title='Space Adventures in Singapore'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114048145193360750</id><published>2006-02-20T17:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T17:29:02.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Commercial Space Travel--The Thought Heard Round the World</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/uae%20spaceport.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/uae%20spaceport.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; reports that soon, New Mexico’s proposed spaceport won’t be the only one on the planet. Space Adventures, along with entrepreneurs Hamid, Anousheh and Amir Ansari (as in &lt;em&gt;Ansari &lt;/em&gt;X Prize), have announced plans to build a spaceport in the United Arab Emirates. An anonymous Russian design firm is building vehicles for Space Adventures while buzz thickens over a yet-to-be unveiled spaceport in Singapore. Read the full story: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/science/18space.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/science/18space.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114048145193360750?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114048145193360750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114048145193360750&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114048145193360750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114048145193360750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/commercial-space-travel-thought-heard.html' title='Commercial Space Travel--The Thought Heard Round the World'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-114048131991479477</id><published>2006-02-20T17:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T17:21:59.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All Systems Go</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;It’s official: New Mexico lawmakers have approved legislation to finance the proposed spaceport—the first step in making this vision a reality. The Legislature authorized $100 million in capital outlay funds through 2009. MSNBC and Space.com are on the story. Read it here: &lt;a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11407719/"&gt;http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11407719/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-114048131991479477?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/114048131991479477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=114048131991479477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114048131991479477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/114048131991479477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/all-systems-go.html' title='All Systems Go'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113926717241448615</id><published>2006-02-06T16:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-03-02T14:44:07.483-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/Space%20X%20launch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/Space%20X%20launch.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Entrepreneur Elon Musk is another player in the New Space Race, reported &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; last Sunday. The millionaire inventor of Pay Pal is ready to take on behemoths Lockeed Martin and Boeing to cash in on the $4 billion satellite launch business. He also thinks his Falcon 1, the Volkswagon of rockets, can undercut competitors in Russia, the Ukraine, and France. No word yet—rumors or otherwise—about him relocating from California to New Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the full story: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/business/yourmoney/05rocket.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/business/yourmoney/05rocket.html?pagewanted=1&amp;amp;_r=1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113926717241448615?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113926717241448615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113926717241448615&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113926717241448615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113926717241448615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/entrepreneur-elon-musk-is-another.html' title=''/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113891212602126192</id><published>2006-02-02T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T13:31:51.116-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rocket Racing League Announces First Team</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/1600/Artist%20Race%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5381/2139/320/Artist%20Race%202.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Yesterday, the Rocket Racing League announced its first team, and news outlets like &lt;em&gt;Outside&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Wired &lt;/em&gt;magazine are on the story. “The promise of that kind of flying excitement is what attracted Don "Dagger" Grantham and Robert "Bobaloo" Rickard to sign on as members of the RRL's first team. . ." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;wrote Michael Belfiore on Wired.com. “Both men are F-16 fighter pilots as well as entrepreneurs, and they see rocket racing as the next great flying experience.”&lt;em&gt;Outside&lt;/em&gt; reports that Rocket Racing should be a dynamic spectator experience as well. “Fans on the ground will see the virtual track superimposed over the action on giant TV screens as well as on specially developed handheld units.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Rocket Racing League's headquarters are in Las Cruces, New Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Read the &lt;em&gt;Wired &lt;/em&gt;story: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70140-0.html?tw=wn_technology_4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70140-0.html?tw=wn_technology_4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Read the &lt;em&gt;Outside&lt;/em&gt; story: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/news/20060201_1.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://outside.away.com/outside/news/20060201_1.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113891212602126192?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113891212602126192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113891212602126192&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113891212602126192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113891212602126192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/02/rocket-racing-league-announces-first.html' title='Rocket Racing League Announces First Team'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113839327231303166</id><published>2006-01-27T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-19T20:01:39.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reuters’ Eyes on Richardson</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Yesterday, British news agency Reuters released an interview with Governor Richardson about the future of New Mexico’s spaceport. “"This is not just rich people going into space," Richardson said. "We're using the philosophy that if we build it, they will come, and already four companies have committed."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113839327231303166?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113839327231303166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113839327231303166&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113839327231303166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113839327231303166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/reuters-eyes-on-richardson.html' title='Reuters’ Eyes on Richardson'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113839268310818786</id><published>2006-01-27T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T13:11:23.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From Nascar to the Stars</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Rocket Racing League graces the cover of the February 2006 edition of &lt;em&gt;Popular Science&lt;/em&gt; magazine (on newsstands now). The organization, founded by Granger Whitelaw and X-Prize CEO Peter Diamandis,announced Las Cruces, New Mexico, as their world headquarters last week. The cover story describes the future sport: “Soon, if all goes well, 10 rocket-powered planes. . .belching 10-foot-long orange and yellow flames will speed around a two-mile long, 5,000-foot-high racetrack, competing for a $2 million championship purse.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113839268310818786?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113839268310818786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113839268310818786&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113839268310818786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113839268310818786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/from-nascar-to-stars.html' title='From Nascar to the Stars'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113771223237987380</id><published>2006-01-19T16:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T21:38:24.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Forbes Focus: Funding and the Final Frontier</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Yesterday, Forbes.com published a special report on the New Space Race. Among the luminaries: New Mexico. Learn more in “The Business of Space”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/01/17/space-tourism-entrepreneurs_cx_de_0118space-intro.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.forbes.com/2006/01/17/space-tourism-entrepreneurs_cx_de_0118space-intro.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113771223237987380?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113771223237987380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113771223237987380&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113771223237987380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113771223237987380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/forbes-focus-funding-and-final.html' title='Forbes Focus: Funding and the Final Frontier'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113771204396252077</id><published>2006-01-19T16:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T16:07:23.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stormy Weather in the Sunshine State</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Florida Governor Jeb Bush asks the legislature for $55 million to make its space facilities competitive with New Mexico, says &lt;em&gt;Florida Today&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;An excerpt: “New Mexico leads the pack of incentive packages with plans to build a $200 million commercial spaceport to host space tourism ventures such as British-owned Virgin Galactic. State Rep. Bob Allen, R-Merritt Island, recently suggested investing at least $250 million for some of the space projects mentioned Wednesday to compete with what he deemed more aggressive states like New Mexico.” Read the entire article:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060119/NEWS02/601190345/1007"&gt;http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060119/NEWS02/601190345/1007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113771204396252077?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113771204396252077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113771204396252077&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113771204396252077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113771204396252077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/stormy-weather-in-sunshine-state.html' title='Stormy Weather in the Sunshine State'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113762886956315668</id><published>2006-01-18T16:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-18T02:32:35.343-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Make Contact</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Thursday, January 19 at 8 am is the first public meeting of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. Speakers include NMEDD Secretary Rick Homans, Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn, Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation Peter Diamandis, and founder of the Rocket Racing League Granger Whitelaw. The meeting will center of the future of New Mexico and space commercialization. The agenda welcomes public comment, and future meeting dates will be discussed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Date: Thursday, January 19, 2006&lt;br /&gt;Time: 8 am&lt;br /&gt;Place: State Land Office Building, Morgan Hall, 310 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113762886956315668?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113762886956315668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113762886956315668&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762886956315668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762886956315668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/make-contact.html' title='Make Contact'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113762877795166955</id><published>2006-01-18T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T16:59:37.956-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On Newsstands Now</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Progressive business magazine &lt;em&gt;Red Herring&lt;/em&gt; announces the article “Rocket Science” in its January 16, 2006 edition. According to their website, “'Rocket Science’&lt;br /&gt;takes a look at the companies seeking to profit by sending space tourists into earth’s orbit as the wealthy class increasingly views rocket rides as the ultimate thrill.” These are the sorts of businesses New Mexico Economic developers seek to attract to our proposed spaceport.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;See the preview here: &lt;a href="http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15189"&gt;http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15189&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113762877795166955?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113762877795166955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113762877795166955&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762877795166955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762877795166955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-newsstands-now.html' title='On Newsstands Now'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113762822386045160</id><published>2006-01-18T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-01-16T09:49:51.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Burt Rutan on CBS 60 Minutes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;60 Minutes&lt;/em&gt; rang in the new year on their January 1 broadcast by airing a profile of Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed SpaceShipOne--winner of the Ansari X-Prize and the model for Virgin Galactic’s fleet of spaceplanes to be headquartered at the proposed New Mexico Spaceport.&lt;br /&gt;Rutan said: "There will be a new industry. And we are just now beginning. I will predict that in 12 or 15 years, there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people that fly, and see that black sky." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch the clip:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/26/search/main886284.shtml?searchString=rutan&amp;source=cbsvideos&amp;amp;sort=1&amp;type=any&amp;amp;num=10&amp;offset=0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/26/search/main886284.shtml?searchString=rutan&amp;amp;source=cbsvideos&amp;sort=1&amp;amp;amp;type=any&amp;num=10&amp;amp;offset=0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Watch Ed Bradley’s commentary on Burt Rutan: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=60Sunday"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=60Sunday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113762822386045160?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113762822386045160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113762822386045160&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762822386045160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762822386045160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/burt-rutan-on-cbs-60-minutes.html' title='Burt Rutan on CBS 60 Minutes'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113762735862658805</id><published>2006-01-18T16:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T16:51:35.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We Are Not Alone</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;The New Mexico Economic Development Department and Virgin Galactic aren’t the only folks imagining the day when tourists visit space. Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, is already at work building what might be the first space hotel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Read more here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/05097_bigelow_prep.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/05097_bigelow_prep.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Read a Q&amp;amp;A with Robert Bigelow and Salon.com: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/07/bigelow/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/07/bigelow/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113762735862658805?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113762735862658805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113762735862658805&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762735862658805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762735862658805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/we-are-not-alone.html' title='We Are Not Alone'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21175114.post-113762697894904560</id><published>2006-01-18T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T16:37:25.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brangelina Blast Off</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;While &lt;em&gt;People&lt;/em&gt; magazine obsesses over the couple’s bun in the oven, space enthusiasts are talking about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s commitment to the final frontier. The couple recently announced their plans to be among the first on Virgin Galactic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://www.gotravelinsurance.co.uk/public/news.asp?id=15128790"&gt;http://www.gotravelinsurance.co.uk/public/news.asp?id=15128790&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21175114-113762697894904560?l=newspacerace.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/feeds/113762697894904560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21175114&amp;postID=113762697894904560&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762697894904560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21175114/posts/default/113762697894904560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://newspacerace.blogspot.com/2006/01/brangelina-blast-off.html' title='Brangelina Blast Off'/><author><name>Tricia Ware</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17535043161794395910</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
