The Doña Ana County spaceport tax will be voted in reports the Journal's Rene Romo.

The final tally of provisional ballots in the proposed quarter-cent sales tax increase for the Spaceport may not be available until Friday.

On Tuesday, residents of Dona Ana County voted on a proposed quarter-cent sales tax increase critical to the project. The tax increase, which would raise a projected $49 million, led by a mere 238 votes out of 17,168 cast, with 541 provisional ballots still to be counted. A final count is expected today.

Spaceport America would be funded by state, local and federal money. The first rocket flights would be in 2009 and would initially be suborbital trips that would offer five minutes of weightlessness at about $200,000 per person. Eventually, the spaceport could offer trips into orbit and beyond.

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