Spaceport relay race tests runners

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (KRQE) – For Spaceport America’s first annual Spaceport Relay Race, runners must cross a vast desert that colonists from Mexico in the 1600’s called the Jornada del Muerto, journey of the dead man. It is a name you still see on maps today.
Spaceport America, New Mexico’s purpose made launch facility, sits right in the middle of the hot and forbidding terrain.
24 teams of runners started 180 miles away in El Paso, Texas on Sa