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People for Aerospace Sierra County
Vote Yes April 22, 2008!
Chances are good you will never ride a rocket into outer space, or visit the International Space Station, so why should you support the Spaceport?
For the same reasons we support new schools, airports, roads and education – to promote jobs and economic development in Sierra County.
Over sixty years ago, New Mexicans were on the forefront of space-age rocket research and technology. Scientific giants like Robert Goddard and Werner Von Braun saw the benefits of New Mexico and launched the space age that eventually led America to the Moon and beyond. Today, White Sands Missile Range contributes over $1 million a day to our area economy. As a result, Southern New Mexico harbors a thriving high-tech and research business community.
Now is our chance for Sierra County to be in the forefront!
The new Spaceport represents an investment in Sierra County's future and continuing growth. We can diversify our economic development by capitalizing on the newly emerging commercialization of space by the private sector. Just like areas with large airports, train stations or shipping harbors, it takes public funding to provide the infrastructure to bring in private investment – with jobs, equipment and increased tax revenues.
Spaceport America offers commercial aerospace and rocket companies benefits that can’t be found anywhere else in the nation: our high altitude makes it easier and more economical to fuel payloads into space, and we have dedicated clear airspace above thanks to our close proximity to White Sands Missile Range. Lower population densities mean fewer encroachment issues for development, and the aerospace research synergy that already exists between New Mexico State University and White Sands Missile Range is a resource beyond value.
When you vote to support the Spaceport GRT initiative, you are voting to support the continuation of better-paying jobs for our children and a brighter economic future for all of Sierra County!
The unveiling of the Spaceport America brand shines light on a visionary project many years in the making. New Mexico’s weather and wide-open spaces have been ideal for the aerospace industry since Robert Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry, began conducting research in Roswell in the 1930s. He was followed by Wernher von Braun in the 1940s, and NASA in the 1980s.
By the early 1990s, a group of like-minded individuals called the Southwest Space Task Force felt the impetus to take New Mexico’s space industry to the next level: commercial space and reusable launch vehicles. Based on years of study, they zeroed in on 27 square-miles of state-owned land, 45 miles north of Las Cruces as a location for an inland Spaceport. When Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Rick Homans took office in 2003, they went to him and pleaded their case.
Homans then picked up the torch, presenting the idea of a New Mexico Spaceport to Governor Richardson, negotiating with the X Prize Foundation to locate the X Prize Cup in New Mexico, spearheading legislation to finance the Spaceport, and most recently, recruiting four aerospace mavericks — including Virgin Galactic — to New Mexico. Read More
