Upham, New Mexico

Upham, New Mexico

Upham is an uninhabited, unincorporated town and place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It has gained recognition for being near the planned site for the Southwest Regional Spaceport, now called Spaceport America.Fact|date=August 2008 This will be Virgin Galactic's world headquarters and mission control location.Fact|date=August 2008

Upham is located approximately 30 miles east of Truth or Consequences, and 45 miles north of Las Cruces in the southern part of the state [ [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/060125_build_spaceport.html SPACE.com - New Mexico: Building A Better Spaceport ] ] 4557 feet (1388 meters) above sea level. Virgin Galactic is the first space tourism company to develop commercial flights into space.

Sub-orbital commercial space launches began in in 2007citeweb|title=Private Firm Launches Test Shot From Spaceport America|url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/071220-testshot-spaceport.html|publisher="space.com"|accessdate=2008-04-05] cite news | title = Lockheed Martin signs agreement with NM Spaceport| publisher = "New Mexico Business Weekly"| date = 2008-04-15| url = http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/04/14/daily19.html?jst=b_ln_hl| accessdate = 2008-07-05] .

References

* CNN - [http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/11/xprize/]

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/?sll=32.88639,-107.00167&spn=0.05,0.05 Google map of Upham, New Mexico]
* [http://nmspaceport.blogspot.com New Mexico Spaceport blog] by Mike McConnell


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