by Anya Petrone Slepyan, The Daily YonderOctober 3, 2023 On the morning of August 10th, 2023, residents of Elephant Butte, New Mexico (population 1,427), stood in their yards, eyes trained on the sky. They were rewarded with the sights—and sounds—of a spaceplane being launched into sub-orbital space. “We could hear the rocket ignite—it [...]