New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 61 - SPACEPORTS
Part 2 - NON-AEROSPACE CUSTOMER, PARTNER AND MERCHANDISE SELECTION
Section 18.61.2.6 - OBJECTIVE

The objective of this rule is to establish a procedure and criteria for assessing and selecting non-aerospace customers, partners and merchandise that are consistent with the spaceport America's business plan for attracting new non-aerospace customers and developing branding and co-branding partners while promoting educational involvement for the citizens of New Mexico and the general public. While spaceport America's primary business is aerospace with a focus on space, the spaceport America business plan also provides for growing non-aerospace business to augment revenue from the emerging commercial space industry in order to become self-sustaining and contribute to economic development in the state. In order to grow non-aerospace business, particular attention must be given to selecting customers, branding and co-branding partners and merchandise that are compatible with the SPACEPORT AMERICA® brand which emphasizes innovation, inspiration and the positive future of commercial space travel. By establishing the procedures and criteria contained in this rule, the New Mexico spaceport authority seeks to define and describe its approach for determining if potential non-aerospace customers, partners or merchandise advance an appropriate brand and business strategy to grow brand equity value, preserve the integrity of the SPACEPORT AMERICA® brand and attract appropriate business opportunities to the state. As the SPACEPORT AMERICA® brand value/equity increases, it will be able to attract additional high value brands to engage with spaceport America and New Mexico across a number of diverse business segments, which translates into millions of dollars' worth of positive earned media value and brand equity for the state and its citizens. Not only does such a strategy result in immediate revenue, it also provides positive free advertising in markets that will attract more customers.