Space Command HQ

New Mexico’s greatest advantages in space are simply elemental. Our state’s ideal climate and predictable weather patterns make it the perfect place to manufacture and test sensitive materials that are required for space technology. These same conditions attracted innovators from early Space Race pioneers Robert Goddard to Wernher von Braun, who tested their rockets over New Mexico, to Virgin Galactic, which will soon make new history when it launches its first human spaceflight from New Mexico’s Spaceport America, making our state only the third in the entire country to host a crewed spaceflight.