Sierra County Economic News Stories
Recent News:
SCEDO Hosts Legislative Dinner
Santa
Fe -
Jan 30, 2012
A fun and productive dinner last month with Lt. Governor Sanchez, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Daniels, almost every Cabinet Secretary, and many of our State Legislators including Sen. John Arthur Smith and Rep. Dianne Hamilton. Speakers included George Whitesides, CEO Virgin Galactic, Dr. Rick Holdridge, Chairman of Spaceport America Authority Board and Andre Douchane, CEO THEMAC Resources (Copper Flat Mine). Most importantly, 70 of our fellow citizens and leaders from Sierra County attended.
Commerce official gets earful at meeting
LAS CRUCES -
Jan 25, 2012
John Fernandez, assistant secretary of commerce for the Obama administration's economic development department, said he came to Las Cruces - not to tell anyone what to do - but to listen to what they had to say.
Story Courtesy Las Cruces Sun News
By Reyes Mata III rmata@lcsun-news.com
Posted: 01/25/2012 09:58:58 PM MST
Photo: John Fernandez, U.S. assistant secretary of commerce for economic... (Robin Zielinski/Sun-News)
Spaceport Dedication Ceremonies
Looking
skyward, more than 800 guests marveled at Virgin Galactic’s commercial
space vehicles as they soared through the skies of southern New Mexico
during the dedication ceremonies of Virgin Galactic’s new home at Spaceport
America. The flight of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo was the highlight
of a spectacular ceremony which featured the dedication of the Sir Norman
Foster-designed building and announcements of new scientific and educational
customers for the world’s first commercial space line.
Gov. Susana Martinez and Sir Richard Branson dedicate "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space" photo & story courtesy Spaceport America
Aston Martin One-77 at Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America
Read the story at Classic Driver
Excerpt: The One-77, which costs about five times the
price of a space trip, is also more exclusive – with production
limited to 77 cars; hence the One-77 moniker.
Virgin Galactic Industry Day
SCEDO was pleased to attend the Virgin Galactic Industry Day on 10/18 and set up a display table to meet with the 150 attendees, most of whom were potential contractors from all over the Country. Combining forces with the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA), SCEDO was joined by Xacta Printing(the first local Virgin Galactic supplier), Tom Burris; Superintendent of Schools and D. Rush; CEO of Sierra Vista Hospital.
Regional Business Enterprise Grant Presented to SCEDO
On Tuesday, August 9, 2011 SCEDO was pleased to welcome many guests including U.S. Senator Tom Udall and Terry Brunner, State Director of USDA Rural Development-New Mexico for the presentation of the USDA Regional Business Enterprise Grant to help Sierra County establish its first Small Business Incubator Center at the SCEDO offices. Thank you to everyone who attended and shared in this ceremony with us.
NASA bookings boost hopes
for Spaceport America
(permission LCSun-News)
By Diana M. Alba DALBA@LCSUN-NEWS.COM; excerpt from the Las Cruces Sun News
10/15/2011 11:07:31 PM MDT
LAS CRUCES - NASA's recently announced plan to buy flights
from two companies that will launch from Spaceport America gives
the $209 million project a shot in the arm, as the facility
preps for a ceremonial dedication of its largest building on
Monday and the overall project inches closer to completion, ...
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Dirt-Road Driving To Explore Spaceport America
by Paul Brady on Sep 9th 2011 at 9:00AM
In the wilderness of New Mexico, set in the dry, scrubby desert under a crystalline pale blue sky, is a construction site with a bombastic and cartoonish name, incomplete but already a monument to the hubris of interstellar exploration or maybe to tax-payer financed public-private partnerships of indeterminate future success.
read more here - includes video of the trip
NASA Picks Seven Firms for Commercial Sub-Orbital Flight Services
Posted: 08/13/2011
Under its Flight Opportunities Program, NASA has selected seven companies to provide suborbital flight services to the agency. Winners include Armadillo Aerospace, Near Space Corp., Masten Space Systems, Up Aerospace Inc., Virgin Galactic, Whittinghill Aerospace, and XCOR, but the commercial space flight industry is happy as well.
read more here
Contact Us
John Mulcahy, Executive Director
400 West 4th St.
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
Phone: 575.894.9061 Fax: 575.894.3194
Email: john.mulcahy@scedo.org
