Comments on: New Mexico legislature advances spaceport sale bill https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-mexico-legislature-advances-spaceport-sale-bill/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 05:21:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-mexico-legislature-advances-spaceport-sale-bill/#comment-718874 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 05:21:59 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33087#comment-718874 Wouldn’t launches from California pose the risk of any falling debris landing in populated areas?

I thought that was why we tried to launch from Texas and Florida. To take advantage of the Earths rotation and the fact that all the rockets launch over water.

The only thing truly viable to launch from NM is the sub orbital flights Virgin first tried. Straight up and straight down.

]]> By: Rene Borbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-mexico-legislature-advances-spaceport-sale-bill/#comment-718437 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 03:39:48 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33087#comment-718437 Sad, it has come this, but the state failed to understand and anticipate the risks of the spaceport. I agree Edward that the spaceport will eventually produce fruit. I suspect a commercially viable spaceport will arise in California because of geography and the presence f technology firms there.

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-mexico-legislature-advances-spaceport-sale-bill/#comment-717977 Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:03:38 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33087#comment-717977 On the other hand, a non-government operator of the spaceport may provide better service with faster response times for current and future tenants than a bureaucratic government-run operation could. Although this could be a disappointment and immediate loss of money for the state of New Mexico, I think that the businesses that a spaceport will attract will eventually generate enough tax revenue to recover the state’s initial investment, even though the state wouldn’t profit directly from owning the spaceport.

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