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Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight
-- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space."It couldn't have gone more smoothly," Read more »
Around the web
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It's Artificial Afghanistan: A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert
Irwin is a U.S. army base nearly the size of Rhode Island, located in the Mojave Desert about an hour's drive northeast of Barstow, California. There you will find the National Training Center, or NTC, at which all U.S. troops, from all the services, spend from The Atlantic Read more »
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Field tests in Mojave Desert pave way for human exploration of small bodies
shaped? (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and a team of international researchers from Mars Institute and SETI Institute returned to the Mojave Desert this month to complete a series of field tests and simulations aimed at investigating ... NASA's FY2014 budget proposal from PhysOrg.com Read more »
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Alien Sightings Double In A Year (In Canada)
cigar-shaped UFO was photographed by general aviation pilot David Hastings as he piloted a Cessna Skymaster plane over the Mojave Desert on Sept. 9, 1985. There has never been an indication of hoax in this case, which remains unexplained to this day. UFO Over from The Huffington Post Read more »
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SDSU rocket might crack sound barrier
work." The rocket team typically works with 20-30 students, many of whom will make the 220-mile trip Saturday to the Mojave Desert, one of the world's most famous flight testing grounds. The Mojave has been used to fly everything from SpaceShipOne, the first from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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Fresnans worry about fate of goslings in drained flood control basin
local spectacle is the sight of dozens of baby geese trudging in 100-degree weather across northwest Fresno's version of the Mojave Desert. Cheryl Richards is incensed, and she has plenty of company. "Look at them," Richards said Monday afternoon, pointing from Fresno Bee Read more »
