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New Mexico breaks ground on commercial spaceport...

Jun. 19, 2009
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New Mexico breaks ground on Spaceport

UPHAM, N.M., June 19 (UPI) -- Festivities were under way Friday at the groundbreaking of New Mexico's new Spaceport America and its 10,000-foot runway, state officials said.

Texas county passes on spaceport plan

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The Kenedy Memorial Foundation in Texas says it has decided against offering ranch land in Kenedy County for a spaceport resort.

Mogul breaks ground on Fla. spaceport

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Space Exploration Technologies has broken ground on a commercial launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Spaceport closer to breaking ground

LAS CRUCES, N.M., June 20 (UPI) -- The New Mexico Spaceport Authority says the Spaceport America project could break ground next April.

New Mexico approves spaceport tax

LAS CRUCES, N.M., April 6 (UPI) -- Voters in New Mexico's Dona Ana County have agreed to raise taxes to pay for the world's first all-commercial spaceport in the city of Las Cruces.

New Mexico to decide on spaceport

LAS CRUCES, N.M., March 26 (UPI) -- Some New Mexico residents will decide whether to hike county sales taxes to pay for the world's first all-commercial spaceport.

N.M. pushes for spaceport tax support

LAS CRUCES, N.M., March 21 (UPI) -- The New Mexico Space Authority says the state spaceport will cost about $27 million less than earlier estimates.

New Mexico aerospace director dies

LAS CRUCES, N.M., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Lonnie Sumpter, credited with developing New Mexico's commercial aerospace industry, has died at 58 after a brief illness.

Canada plans its first spaceport

CAPE BRETON, Nova Scotia, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Canada is reportedly planning to build its first spaceport, which will launch supplies to the International Space Station and even send tourists into space.

Historic Russian spaceport turns 50

LENINSK, Russia, June 2 (UPI) -- The Baikonur Cosmodrome -- the site near Leninsk, Russia, of the world's first satellite launch and manned space flight -- turned 50 Wednesday.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler