Obituary: John Eric Rundberg May 13, 1986 – Jan. 8, 2021
JOHN ERIC RUNDBERG – May 13, 1986-Jan. 8, 2021
John Eric Rundberg, a resident of Socorro, New Mexico, died unexpectedly on Friday, January 8th in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 34.
He was born May 13, 1986 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the second of three children born to Bob and Ginger Rundberg. He grew up in Los Alamos, where he attended Los Alamos High School, played club rugby, and taught swimming lessons as a lifeguard at Canyon Vista Pool in White Rock.
He attended New Mexico Tech in Socorro, where he became involved with Pygmy Rugby, first as a player and later as the team’s unofficial photographer. He worked for many years as General Manager at Socorro Springs Brewing Company.
Ghost Town In Playas Provides High-Tech Testing For AFRL - 9:59 am
AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate researchers setting up test equipment overlooking the Playas Research and Training Center in southern New Mexico. Courtesy/AFRL
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KIRTLAND AFB In a dusty ghost town in southern New Mexico, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is conducting some of its most important testing.
Located in Hidalgo County, Playas was once a bustling “corporate town” built by the Phelps Dodge Corporation to house the workforce of a copper smelter built in 1971. The boom town was all but abandoned when copper prices fell in 1999, the smelter was closed, and most of its residents fled for better opportunities elsewhere.
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Senator Ramos resigns Written by Makayla Grijalva on December 8, 2020
District 28 state Sen. Gabriel Ramos has resigned from his legislative position, effective last Sunday, after accepting a job with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The resignation comes less than a month before Ramos was set to pass the torch to his successor, Siah Correa Hemphill, who was elected in November and will take office Jan. 1.
According to New Mexico law, state government cannot compensate legislators for work that they do for a state entity, with the exception of the per diem payments they receive as legislators.
“There are three weeks left, and I just figured that they needed me to go ahead and start, so we went ahead and gave the resignation,” Ramos said Monday. “There were three weeks left, so that did weigh in part of my decision. I had to get it done.”
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....Representatives from the U.S. Air Force and Space Force are beginning to conduct on-site and virtual visits to determine whether Albuquerque is the right place to build the new headquarters for U.S. Space Command. I am convinced they will come to the same conclusion reached by an increasing number of leading private space companies: New Mexico is the future of space.
Sen. Martin Heinrich
There’s a reason THEIA Group Inc., a major remote sensing satellite company, chose to build a multibillion, 122-acre spacecraft manufacturing campus right next to Kirtland Air Force Base. There’s a reason SolAero, a manufacturer of nearly half the world’s space solar cells and panels, built a massive facility in Albuquerque. And there is a reason that Applied Technology Associates, an industry-leading developer of space-based systems for the U.S. government, was founded and remains headquartered in Albuqu