{"id":1648,"date":"2007-04-28T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/up-aerospace-rocket-successfully-reaches-space\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:05:00","slug":"up-aerospace-rocket-successfully-reaches-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/up-aerospace-rocket-successfully-reaches-space\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Aerospace rocket successfully reaches space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RjO3h8C6ygI\/AAAAAAAACKA\/xPlfAzVs9ik\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RjO3h8C6ygI\/AAAAAAAACKA\/xPlfAzVs9ik\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058588600149133826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today marked a huge milestone for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a> as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">UP Aerospace<\/a> rocket successfully reached space carrying the ashes of about 200 people.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The success comes after a series of delays and a September launch that failed to reach space. Since then, company officials have been working to correct a flaw in the rocket\u2019s design by adding another tail fin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis launch has christened Spaceport <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,\u201d said Economic Development Rick Homans, who will begin his new position as executive director of Spaceport Authority on Tuesday. \u201cToday is all about entrepreneurs blazing a commercial path into space. We are proud that all systems worked successfully and safely today for UP Aerospace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The launch sent the cremated remains of James Doohan, who played \u201cScotty\u201d on Star Trek, and Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper into space. It was the first successful launch from the spaceport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The launch took place at 8:56 a.m. \u2013 close to the planned time of 8:30 a.m., according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070428\/ap_on_re_us\/rocket_launch;_ylt=Aqz26H7jfJdb.PaoSh9XdMbMWM0F\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. The rocket touched down on <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">White<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Sands<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Missile<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Range<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> shortly after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">People paid $495 each to send the ashes of loved ones into space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I couldn\u2019t be there because I had to attend today\u2019s Democratic Party convention in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. (I\u2019ll have a story on that in a bit.) This is a politics site, after all. I\u2019m hoping to have more coverage and video of the launch, if anyone shot it and posts it on the Internet, later this weekend or Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marked a huge milestone for Spaceport America as an UP Aerospace rocket successfully reached space carrying the ashes of about 200 people. The success comes after a series of delays and a September launch that failed to reach space. Since then, company officials have been working to correct a flaw in the rocket\u2019s design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}