{"id":6407,"date":"2009-09-18T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2009-09-18T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:49:56","slug":"construction-on-spaceport-runway-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/construction-on-spaceport-runway-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction on spaceport runway gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6408\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6408\" title=\"Spaceport runway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Spaceport-runway-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Spaceport runway construction. (Photo by Richard Woodsum)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Spaceport-runway-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Spaceport-runway-336x252.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Spaceport-runway.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spaceport runway construction. (Photo by Richard Woodsum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Construction of the 10,000-foot runway at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\">Spaceport America<\/a> is underway, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority announced today in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the most tangible sign yet that the spaceport is on its way toward becoming a reality. Officials say the runway should be complete by late summer 2010. The current work involves clearing and leveling ground for the massive runway.<\/p>\n<p>From the news release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMeasuring 10,000 feet long by 200 feet wide, the runway is designed for day-to-day space tourism and payload launch operations like those anticipated for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>, the anchor tenant for Spaceport America. The large concrete runway will also be able to accommodate returning launch vehicles, fly-back rocket boosters and other space launch and training vehicles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The runway is being built by David Montoya Construction of Alameda, NM.<\/p>\n<p>As for the terminal and hangar facility that will allow operations to begin at the spaceport, the news release says it\u2019s \u201cprojected to be complete by early 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the 10,000-foot runway at Spaceport America is underway, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority announced today in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-spaceport-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}