Friday, October 20th:

On arrival at Truth or Consequences airport (KTCS) October 20, you’ll be met by a private tour bus company and driven to Spaceport America’s visitor center for lunch and your “event unique” name badges. That will be followed by 4-hour tour of the remote facility. The tour price is $65 per person but practically free compared to the prohibitive cost of landing on the spaceport’s runway – several thousand dollars. The tour buses hold 13 passengers, so the two available for us set the maximum number who can attend at 26. Our buses will be dedicated to CPA members only. Private vehicles are prohibited at the Spaceport.

Afterwards, the buses will return us to the airport for the 50-mile flight north to Socorro NM (KONM) where city provided transportation will take us to the hotel, to and from Trinity Site  the next day and then back to the airport the morning of October 22 for departure. There are no rental or courtesy cars available in Socorro but we will drive one from Albuquerque just in case there is a need for ground transportation in the event of an aircraft maintenance problem (or a run to the liquor store…). However, we’ll be staying at the Holiday Inn Express near restaurants and a brew pub so all of the necessities will be close by. Our Colorado Pilots Association group room rate is $134 a night, pre-tax.