{"id":1673,"date":"2007-05-03T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/officials-havent-recovered-up-aerospace-rocket\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T19:16:00","slug":"officials-havent-recovered-up-aerospace-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/officials-havent-recovered-up-aerospace-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials haven&#8217;t recovered UP Aerospace rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rjo1S8C6y_I\/AAAAAAAACN4\/lPO_H8E6FxE\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rjo1S8C6y_I\/AAAAAAAACN4\/lPO_H8E6FxE\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060415730776460274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Officials haven\u2019t yet retrieved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">UP Aerospace<\/a> rocket that successfully flew into space on Saturday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_5805298\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The rocket landed in the mountains 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> and is difficult to reach. The area has had thunderstorms in the last few days (a tornado hit the ground near WSMR yesterday), which has also hampered efforts, the Sun-News reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The company located the rocket booster on Monday, but hasn\u2019t been able to reach it yet. The location of the payload portion of the rocket is known because of a tracking device placed on board, but it\u2019s a small object, and spotting it with a helicopter has proven difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The area isn\u2019t accessible even with four-wheel-drive vehicles, so a recovery team will try to transport the rocket out of the mountainous area using a helicopter, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">UP Aerospace has a video showing the initial stage of the launch on its Web site. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upaerospace.com\/video\/UP_Aerospace_SL-2.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials haven\u2019t yet retrieved the UP Aerospace rocket that successfully flew into space on Saturday, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting. The rocket landed in the mountains on White Sands Missile Range and is difficult to reach. The area has had thunderstorms in the last few days (a tornado hit the ground near WSMR yesterday), [&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-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}