Visitors to Spaceport America must first navigate the frontier before reaching the final frontier.

Across dirt roads, through deep puddles, and past a few cows — where a 4x4 is a way of life rather than an automotive trend — the outlines of a spaceport that will launch technology and people above Earth are just coming into view. For now, these 27 square miles of dirt one hour outside the town of Truth or Consequences mostly consist of two portable buildings, a corrugated steel shed, and two Port-A-Potties — one pink, one blue. Oh, and a launch pad, of course.

Counting Down (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/22/tech/main2033574.shtml)
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I think two things are going to happen with space. One, another country will go to the moon. This will finally light a fire under NASA to go back. And two, a space race in the future is more likely to be between private companies than nations.

Try & try again (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/25/rocket.failure.reut/index.html)

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico (Reuters) -- A commercial rocket blasted off from a site in New Mexico Monday, but malfunctioned before it reached space, organizers said.
The UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket, which organizers had hoped would usher in a new era of cheap public access to space, blasted off from Spaceport America, a remote desert launch site near the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
It slewed off course 40,000 feet above ground due to a malfunction.