Las Cruces (New Mexico)

NMSU Offers Masters And Doctoral Aerospace Engineering Degrees

Las Cruces NM (SPX) Oct 31, 2008 - The New Mexico State University Board of Regents formally approved the creation of a master's degree in aerospace engineering as well as a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering during their...

NMSU Sweeps La Tech for Eighth Straight Victory

LAS CRUCES - The New Mexico State volleyball team won its eighth straight match and captured its second consecutive sweep over the Louisiana lt;br />Tech Lady Techsters with a 3-0 win Thursday night in the Pan American Center....

Space Tourism Vehicle In Works

Armadillo Aerospace is developing a suborbital space tourism vehicle based on the vertical takeoff/landing techniques it used to win the $350,000 Level One prize in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, proposing a...

Aggies Sign Ticket Deal with Wal-Mart

LAS CRUCES, N.M.-The New Mexico State Athletics Department and the Wal-Mart Supercenter, located at 571 Walton Blvd., in Las Cruces, have signed a deal that allows Wal-Mart to sell tickets to the remaining three home football...

Writer Marokvia told of world shattered by war

Mireille Marokvia, who described her childhood in a French village and her wartime ordeals in Nazi Germany in two stirring memoirs published when she was in her 80s and 90s, died Oct. 19 in Las Cruces, N.M., where she had lived...

Wolf Pack men's golf in 5th

Staff Report • October 28, 2008 The Nevada men's golf team finished the first day of the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate in fifth place Monday in Las Cruces, N.M. The Wolf Pack fired a 9-over-par 297 in the first round and a 288...

NASA $350,000 Prize Goes to Armadillo Aerospace in Lunar Challenge

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, October 27, 2008 Source: NASA Innovative Partnerships Program WASHINGTON -- Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar...

Texas Deputy Thanked for Saving Boy from Burning Car

Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008 Updated: October 27th, 2008 03:38 PM EDT Las Cruces Sun-News (New Mexico) EL PASO -- Despite the accolades and media attention, El Paso County sheriff's Deputy Juan Muñoz maintains he was just...

NASA $350,000 Prize Goes to Armadillo Aerospace in Lunar Challenge

Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, earned $350,000 in NASA prize money during the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge in Las Cruces, N.M. The challenge is a two-level, $2 million competition designed to accelerate...

Armadillo Aerospace Wins $350,000 Prize In Lunar Lander Challenge

Annual Competition Spurs Private Development Of Space Vehicles The Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge has finally had to spend some of NASA's Centennial Challenges prize money. Armadillo Aerospace won the Level One...