The New Mexico Spaceport Authority today announced it has selected a construction and design team to build the terminal and hangar for Spaceport America, a facility meant to be home to private spaceflight companies. Virgin Galactic, for example, plans to build its headquarters there.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, currently a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, has helped push the spaceport idea to the edge of concrete reality in his state, but he has not stressed any specific space policy in his presidential campaign. Perhaps that's because he doesn't think Americans are particularly interested in the subject. If he sees potential in the emerging private space industry, however, maybe he should put out a proposed national space policy and push it as he stumps around the country. Nothing he's said so far has gotten his poll numbers out of single digits.
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