The Mojave Air and Space Port

 VMS EVE carries VSS Enterprise on her first manned flight, seen soaring over Mojave. Photo by Mark Greenberg

The Future of Space Lies in the Desert...

It is amazing to think that we are only a year or two away from seeing the first flights of regular paying passengers aboard Virgin Galactics Spaceship 2 and XCOR Lynx vehicles. These companies work tirelessly everyday to bring about a revolution that will be hard to miss. Many people may not be aware that these 2 companies live next door to each other at the Mojave Air and Space Port, in Mojave California. Not only are they located there, but so is Masten Aerospace, another New Space group with its own unique approach to getting to space. Prior to these companies being there, this was home to Rotary Rocket, a company with a very unique helicopter/rocket hybrid to get to space. All these amazing companies, in such close proximity to one another, begs a question. Why would these companies all settle at the Mojave Air and Space Port? Hopefully I may be able to answer that question.

This blog post will cover the Mojave Air and Space Port, it's history, and why Mojave became the place that will bring civillian space travel to the world.

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