The MBA students are writing specific recommendations to be posted on the CASTE web site. Here is a summary of eight major recommendations.

1. It is recommended that the State of New Mexico declare Spaceport and Economic Enterprise Zone. This will attract the business community to the project and provide a competitive advantage over the business plans of CA and FL. Local tax breaks and the federal assistance that comes with a Free Enterprise Zone will lure the space industry to New Mexico. 
2. A program of press releases and public service announcements is initiated. This could be facilitated by participation of the NMSU public relations office and contacting journalism classes at NMSU to participate. The strategic advantage right now is with FL who issues regular press releases showing community support for their Spaceport.
3. A strategic plan and a business plan be developed in participation with College of Business courses in Entrepreneurship, Small Business Consulting, and other MBA classes (currently taught by Sam Gray and David Boje).
4. Clone Hanson Scott. If this can not be done by the Biology Department, then we recommend that a series of video presentations about Spaceport-NM be developed which can be loaded on to the CASTE web site. In this way, various stakeholder groups can tune in for virtual Hanson Scott presentations.
5. Develop a theme that unites New Mexico - such as "Do it for your children and their children." Right now many community have an attitude of "what is in it for me, here and now." The theme would focus on the long term economic advantages to the entire state that come from the jobs, careers, and increase in science and technology that accompanies the project. We suggest that every county in the state be profiled to show the current and long term advantages of Spaceport to jobs and education potential.  Here is a map to get you started: Map of New Mexico Communities that will benefit from Spaceport-New Mexico. 
6. The highly diverse workforce of New Mexico is a competitive advantage over Florida and California. NM has a more ethnically and racially diverse workforce that will be working in Spaceport -NM; more diverse than the competition.
7. A leadership award should go to Hanson Scott. This man is a dedicated visionary leader. We are fortunate that he is a general, since it takes a general to organize a strategy to meet the many types of business, community, and government stakeholders who are working together to bring the Spaceport to NM. This award could come from the State or from the Universities.
8. Make a proposal to the College of Business Administration and Economics that a major be established in "Space Commerce." A poll of the MBA students indicated, that 85% of the students would sign up for course in such a major. Many of the students are multi-generation residents of New Mexico and believe the establishment of such an industry would give opportunities to them and to their children; reasons to live and work in New Mexico.