Posted on 03/30/2009 6:07:56 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Mexico City - Mexico plans to begin construction this year on a space port to send satellites aloft, an official said Monday.
The facility will be located in the southern state of Quintana Roo on the border with Belize, said state planning minister Jose Alberto Alonso Ovando. The location was chosen after extensive studies in part because of its proximity to the Equator, he said in an interview.
Late last year, the Mexican National Congress approved the founding of a national space agency, Aexa. The agency's headquarters will be located in the state of Hidalgo from where it will oversee launches and space flights.
Will we then see illegals on board the International Space Station?
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Rocket technology
Advanced engineering
Cartels funding this?
Is this to locate illegals crossing the desert?
“Mexico has a space program... I can see India, but Mexico??”
South Park “Free Willy episode”
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Strap downs for drug dealers?
This makes about as much sense as most things they do south of the border. How about they start with an economy for their workers and go from there.
They are just doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.
A Look at Mexico:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mexico
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SNIPPET - Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216898/posts
Mexico’s Fox touts EU-like integration for the Americas
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 03/28/2009 | Elaine Ayala
Posted on March 28, 2009 9:59:47 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in San Antonio Friday, delivering a wide-ranging address about U.S.-Mexico relations that touched on trade, the drug war, comprehensive immigration reform and the United States’ “mammoth” financial crisis that has spread worldwide.
Fox also delivered a message of hope — hope that someday Canada, the United States and Mexico, indeed the rest of Latin America, would function like the European Union.
“It’s an extremely successful model,” said Fox, whose wife, Marta Sahagún, accompanied him. “My vision is to speed up the process of further integration.”
How much drugs will be sent into outer space when the space port opens?
LOL! I see the Mexican cartel robbing those poor astronauts at the iSS.
FREE WILLLYXXXXZZZZ
Can you recall what season that is?
"Mexico plans to begin construction this year on a space port to send satellites aloft, an official said Monday."
Maybe its not for terrestial vessels
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5819
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http://www.parabolicarc.com/2009/03/30/mexico-build-spaceport-forges-ties-russia/
National Space Symposium a Decidely International Affair »
“Mexico to Build Spaceport, Forges Ties With Russia”
Published by Doug Messier on March 30, 2009 in Aexa, Roskosmos and spaceports.
Tags: aexa, mexico, roskosmos, spaceports.
SNIPPET: “The full story is here. It also looks as if Aexa will be getting assistance from the Russian space agency Roskosmos. Deputy Director Segrey Saveliev recently led a delegation to Mexico to discuss bilateral ties, the Russian news agency TASS reports:
Russian experts held negotiatons with the Mexican Congress Senate Committee on Science and Technology, as well as with the initiative group on development of the national space agency.
The visit took place following the initiative of the Mexican party, Saveliev explained. Mexican space agency is to be established in a few months. After that, Roscosmos will negotiate the issues with the authorized state agency.
According to Saveliev, “reliable legal basis is required” to commence discussions of the space programs with Mexico. Mexican party is interested in cooperation in the satellite communication, remote sensing programs, as well as in the Russian Global Navigation System (GLONASS). Thus, prospectives of bilateral cooperation are realistic.
Very interesting developments south of the border.”
Guns and butter, guns and butter......
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