The Reporter's Notebook, Ep. 22: Spaceport America Cup
University of Akron’s Akronauts Rocket Design Team assemble their rocket on the launch pad during the Spaceport America Cup at Spaceport America on Thursday, June 23, 2022. The team won a technical award for their project at the event’s closing ceremony on June 25. (Meg Potter / Las Cruces Sun-News)
In this week’s episode, we’re talking about an annual event that has returned to our area after a two-year, COVID-inspired hiatus. That’s the Spaceport America Cup — which was recently described by someone in our newsroom as March Madness for aspiring rocket scientists.
We talk to Las Cruces Sun-News reporter Algernon D’Ammassa — who regularly covers the Spaceport, its anchor tenant Virgin Galactic, and related topics — and to photojournalist Meg Potter, who is relatively new to New Mexico, about their experiences covering the first day of the event.
This podcast was originally published by the Las Cruces Sun-News.
