Spaceport America

Local nameSpaceport America
LocationLas Cruces, New Mexico

Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA-licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin 45 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and 20 miles southeast of Truth or Consequences. With Virgin Galactic's launch of the VSS Unity, with three people aboard, on May 22, 2021, New Mexico became the third US state to launch humans into space after California and Florida.Spaceport America is "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport", designed and constructed specifically for commercial users, that had not previously been an airport or federal infrastructure of any kind.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America

Email kurt.saenz@state.nm.us

Phone +1 575 373 6110

Address 901 E. University Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88001, USA

Coordinates 32°17'1.203" N -106°45'30.018" E

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