{"id":4525,"date":"2009-05-02T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-space\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T03:45:00","slug":"rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/rocket-launches-successfully-but-fails-to-reach-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket launches successfully but fails to reach space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sf0T59s6qqI\/AAAAAAAALi8\/N_U79who3kA\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 95px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sf0T59s6qqI\/AAAAAAAALi8\/N_U79who3kA\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331439420412963490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A rocket successfully launched from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a> today but failed in its goal of reaching suborbital space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Spaceport Authority Executive Director Steve Landeene was quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvia.com\/global\/story.asp?s=10291837\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a> as saying that he doesn\u2019t know why the rocket didn\u2019t reach the 62-mile boundary of space. It touched down on Bureau of Land Management property and is in the process of being recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s the third time UP Aerospace has launched a SpaceLoft XL rocket from the spaceport. One of the three has reached space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The rocket was carrying payloads developed and built by students from 10 high schools, technical schools and universities in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/090428-titanic-ashes-space-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\">the cremated remains<\/a> of 15 people and a payload being carried for the U.S. Air Force. It was supposed to climb about 70 miles above the earth and eight miles into suborbital space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though it didn\u2019t do that, officials presented a positive analysis of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cToday\u2019s launch was great experience for the students of New Mexico,\u201d Landeene said in a news release. \u201cAlthough we did not achieve the maximum altitude we wanted, the launch delivered on all the learning objectives that we wanted to provide the students. They received hands-on experience in designing and preparing their scientific experiments, and received experience unmatched in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A payload developed by New Mexico State University students was designed to test how flight components operate in suborbital space, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/images\/stories\/launch-media\/NMSA_PayloadDesc.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">the mission profile<\/a> on the spaceport\u2019s Web site. Another, developed by University of New Mexico students, was supposed to \u201cdemonstrate the ability to monitor and record a variety of physical parameters in an actual space flight environment,\u201d the mission profile states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rocket successfully launched from Spaceport America today but failed in its goal of reaching suborbital space. Spaceport Authority Executive Director Steve Landeene was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that he doesn\u2019t know why the rocket didn\u2019t reach the 62-mile boundary of space. It touched down on Bureau of Land Management property and [&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-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}