Comments on: State support for New Mexico spaceport

By: David Davenport

David Davenport — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:02:28 +0000

This porkbarrel deal is gonna discredit alt.space.

By: David Davenport

David Davenport — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:01:43 +0000

Greg, this is hardly snake oil – Recent marketstudies have shown that major interest in Space tourism

But why are American taxpayers supposed to pay for a new airport for Virgin Airlines? — Oh, I meant new “spaceport.”

This is old-fashioned porkbarreling at its worst. They might as well plan to pave some new twelve lane freeways in the area too, or announce a new high speed commuter railway to connect the so-called spaceport to Los Angeles.

And remember, space cadets, money spent on this “spaceport” is money that will not be available to
spend on actual spacecraft hardware.

By: Aaron Oesterle

Aaron Oesterle — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:15:51 +0000

Fred, oh, you so don’t wanna make comments about dems and money issues – not with the way the R’s are doing

By: Fred K

Fred K — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:17:37 +0000

Here’s what to look out for:

2005: Gov. Richardson funnels $100 Million toward state support of the rocket port.

2008: Richard Branson funnels, discretely, 1million into Gov. Richardson campaign.

No tracable quid pro quo …

Just like Mark Rich and Clinton

By: Aaron Oesterle

Aaron Oesterle — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:43:49 +0000

Greg, this is hardly snake oil – Recent marketstudies have shown that major interest in Space tourism – http://www.futron.com/press/zogbypoll.htm – Basically, almost 20% of the population who can affoard this would be willing to pay for it – Branson has already gotten 100 people to pay the full price of $200,000 , and significant more to put a $20,000 downpayment on a ticket. Believe me, this is no snake oil – We are much closer to Space Tourism and Space Colonization than most people think

By: Greg Kuperberg

Greg Kuperberg — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:06:48 +0000

I usually like Bill Richardson, but I don’t like this. New Mexico is buying some snake oil to please a faction. (And distribute patronage. Where they say “jobs”, that’s a name for the meat that comes from a pig.) They ought to wait for “Virgin Galactic” to prove that it is a viable business, then maybe build a “space port”.