In the final hours of its regular 2006 session, the New Mexico state legislature approved a spending bill that includes $100 million over three years for a new commercial spaceport in the southern part of the state. The legislature also approved a separate measure that allows cities and counties to impose gross receipts taxes on businesses to raise additional money for the spaceport.
Good luck, New Mexico! This’ll be one hell of a ride.
Very cool. Now to see if we can squeeze the Feds for some funds.
Alistair
– Albuquerque, NM
Hmm… you’d think they’d spend money on building a spaceport only AFTER someone actually had a vehicle which could use a spaceport.
Well, you had to figure New Mexico would eventually fall for it – they almost did when Lockheed was blathering on about VentureStar…