LAS CRUCES, NM (Ambassadors for Spaceport America PR) — Supporters of Spaceport America, who envision a the development of a thriving commercial space industry in New Mexico, have formed a new organization to support and promote those opportunities to the public, elected officials, policy makers and the media.
The founders of AMBASSADORS FOR SPACEPORT AMERICA, Tom Hutchinson of Las Cruces and Dale Dekker of Albuquerque, hope to create a broad and diverse community of support for Spaceport that is informed and educated about the opportunities that space commercial development offers to the State. According to Tom Hutchinson, several business leaders from throughout the state got together to discuss the emerging personal and commercial spaceflight Industry and the huge opportunity that New Mexico, with its state-of-the-art facility, has to become an industry leader. “We all shared the vision that Spaceport could anchor an economic hub based on the aerospace and commercial space industry, which would generate a job creation and business recruitment engine for the State.”