New Mexico Statutes Chapter 41. Torts § 41-14-2. Definitions

A. “crew” means an employee of a space flight entity who performs activities in the course of that employment directly relating to the launch, reentry or other operation of or in a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle that carries human beings;

B. “launch” means placing or trying to place a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle and any payload, crew or participant in a suborbital trajectory, in earth orbit in outer space or otherwise in outer space. “Launch” includes activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch when those activities take place at a launch site in New Mexico;

C. “launch vehicle” means:

D. “participant” means an individual who is not crew and who is carried within a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle;

E. “participant injury” means an injury sustained by a participant, including bodily injury, emotional distress, death, property damage or any other loss arising from the participant's participation in space flight activities;

F. “payload” means an object that a person undertakes to place in outer space by means of a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle, including components of the vehicle specifically designed or adapted for that object;

G. “reenter” or “reentry” means to purposefully return or attempt to return a reentry vehicle and its payload, crew or participants from earth orbit or from outer space to earth;

H. “reentry vehicle” means a vehicle, including a reusable launch vehicle, designed to return from earth orbit or outer space to earth substantially intact;

I. “space flight activities” means:

J. “space flight entity” means: