wrote:

Rand Simberg wrote:
New Mexico is investing over $200M in a commercial spaceport.

Please source this, including the specific tracking data on the bill
passed by the NM legislature investing this money,

NM House Bill 835, signed into law on February 24, 2006.

http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/BillFin...er.asp?year=06 will let you
find it.

or the official
goverment department that cut the check or is planning to do so.

Try the New Mexico Economic Development Department, and the newly
created New Mexico Spaceport Authority.

In fact, Rand, there's really no point in you posting anything without
sourcing it.

John, whatever time had done to temper my beliefs that you usually speak
out against things you don't understand has just been undone. Rand
overstated the amount -- New Mexico's legislature actually only
appropriated $100 million of the expected $225M cost of the spaceport's
construction -- but what he says is based solidly in reality (as usual).

A brief web search on "New Mexico spaceport" gives plenty of
information. You might want to start he

http://ww1.edd.state.nm.us/index.php...20Commercializ
ation/