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  • New Mexico Takes Its Spaceport International With a New Name

    07/17/2006 9:51:55 AM PDT · by CedarDave · 22 replies · 358+ views
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | July 17, 2006 | Andrew Webb
    Sporting little more than a small concrete launch pad and a cluster of portable buildings, New Mexico's spaceport is a far cry from NASA's Kennedy Space Center— a 144,000-acre city of buildings, launch pads and runways with its own ZIP code. But spaceport backers are thinking big ... really big. State officials today, while attending a major European aerospace show, plan to announce a sweeping new name that seeks to capitalize on New Mexico's status as home to the country's first hub for commercial space flight and tourism. Introducing: Spaceport America. "This is an international project, it puts New Mexico...