New Mexico Desert
- All
- News
-
Atomic Bomb Test Survivor Says His Story Was Ignored By 'Oppenheimer'
Wesley Burris was fast asleep in bed when the world's first atomic bomb exploded just 25 miles from his front door. A blinding light filled the home in the New Mexico desert, before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows
-
What Jeff Bezos, Upstaged In Spaceflight Race, Told Richard Branson
British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space.
-
Richard Branson's Choice Of Transport To Spaceship Launch Pad - A Bicycle
British billionaire Richard Branson prepared on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
-
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson Ready For Space Launch Aboard Rocket Plane
British billionaire Richard Branson was due on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
-
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Completes First Glide Flight in New Mexico
Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations.
-
Boeing Spacecraft Returns to Earth After Aborted Mission
Boeing's new Starliner unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the New Mexico desert in the United States six days early after a clock problem scuppered a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
-
Boeing Spacecraft Lands In US After Mission Cut Short
Boeing's new Starliner unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the New Mexico desert in the United States six days early after a clock problem prevented a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
-
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration In US Border Control Custody
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday.
-
Family Of Boy Buried In New Mexico Believed He Would "Come Back As Jesus"
A 3-year-old boy found buried at a New Mexico desert compound died in a ritual to "cast out demonic spirits," but his extended family believed he would "return as Jesus" to identify "corrupt" targets for them to attack, prosecutors said on Monday.
-
Off-The-Grid Dream Becomes Nightmare In New Mexico Compound
One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.
-
In An Odd Twist, Apache Woman Holds Key To New US Border Wall
Eloisa Tamez is Lipan Apache and her ancestors owned her shrinking parcel of desert on the US border a century before the war that imposed the boundary between Mexico and Texas.
-
10 Defining Moments of David Bowie's Career
David Bowie was perfectly cast as an alien adrift in the New Mexico desert in Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, which opened up a parallel career path as an actor. He went on to play parts including a World War II prisoner of war in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and a vampire in The Hunger
-
Toxic Spill From Colorado Mine Creeps Through US Southwest
Environmental biologists in Utah tested the waters of a key river Tuesday for signs of a toxic waste spill from a botched Colorado mine clean-up operation that prompted a state of emergency in the desert Southwest.
-
Boy Survivor of US Desert Hike That Killed Parents Returns to France
A nine-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.
-
French Hikers Die in US Desert, Son Survives
A French couple died while hiking in the New Mexico desert but authorities rescued their nine-year-old son before he too succumbed to the heat, authorities said Friday.
-
Atomic Bomb Test Survivor Says His Story Was Ignored By 'Oppenheimer'
Wesley Burris was fast asleep in bed when the world's first atomic bomb exploded just 25 miles from his front door. A blinding light filled the home in the New Mexico desert, before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows
-
What Jeff Bezos, Upstaged In Spaceflight Race, Told Richard Branson
British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space.
-
Richard Branson's Choice Of Transport To Spaceship Launch Pad - A Bicycle
British billionaire Richard Branson prepared on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
-
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson Ready For Space Launch Aboard Rocket Plane
British billionaire Richard Branson was due on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
-
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Completes First Glide Flight in New Mexico
Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations.
-
Boeing Spacecraft Returns to Earth After Aborted Mission
Boeing's new Starliner unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the New Mexico desert in the United States six days early after a clock problem scuppered a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
-
Boeing Spacecraft Lands In US After Mission Cut Short
Boeing's new Starliner unmanned spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday, landing in the New Mexico desert in the United States six days early after a clock problem prevented a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
-
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration In US Border Control Custody
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday.
-
Family Of Boy Buried In New Mexico Believed He Would "Come Back As Jesus"
A 3-year-old boy found buried at a New Mexico desert compound died in a ritual to "cast out demonic spirits," but his extended family believed he would "return as Jesus" to identify "corrupt" targets for them to attack, prosecutors said on Monday.
-
Off-The-Grid Dream Becomes Nightmare In New Mexico Compound
One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.
-
In An Odd Twist, Apache Woman Holds Key To New US Border Wall
Eloisa Tamez is Lipan Apache and her ancestors owned her shrinking parcel of desert on the US border a century before the war that imposed the boundary between Mexico and Texas.
-
10 Defining Moments of David Bowie's Career
David Bowie was perfectly cast as an alien adrift in the New Mexico desert in Nicholas Roeg's 1976 film, which opened up a parallel career path as an actor. He went on to play parts including a World War II prisoner of war in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and a vampire in The Hunger
-
Toxic Spill From Colorado Mine Creeps Through US Southwest
Environmental biologists in Utah tested the waters of a key river Tuesday for signs of a toxic waste spill from a botched Colorado mine clean-up operation that prompted a state of emergency in the desert Southwest.
-
Boy Survivor of US Desert Hike That Killed Parents Returns to France
A nine-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.
-
French Hikers Die in US Desert, Son Survives
A French couple died while hiking in the New Mexico desert but authorities rescued their nine-year-old son before he too succumbed to the heat, authorities said Friday.
