9/8 Interesting Idea Search

 So I found a few things, but I will talk mainly about 2. The first one is I was looking into what are some of the reasons that NM so suited for space travel. There are the things people who know the history of the state know, like our role in creating the atomic bomb and how that brought in a lot of people who were in the field. That took me to looking at White Sands and one of the interesting things I found is that after the Columbia came down after an 8 day mission in 1982, it ended up landing at the Northwest Strip at White Sands, and that was the only time that backstip has been used for a space shuttle landing.

I also ended up looking into a bit of space tourrism in NM, which lead me to looking at "Spaceport America". Honestly I never knew about this before and it is interesting to think about how this could affect both NM as a whole and also the smaller towns around it like T or C and Las Cruces. If somthing like this takes off (pun intended) it could mean massive change for those communities. The article I was looking at, however, seemed to be pretty pessimistic about it so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. 

The article I was reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/new-mexicos-sad-bet-on-space-exploration/554243/