Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Mojave Air and Space Port , also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of .
Read More at Wikipedia ›The owners of a Southern California civilian test pilot school pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding the federal government of nearly $710,000 by filing a false tax return related to a secret Swiss bank account, and are expected to pay more than $2 million in civil penalties.
Prosecutors said Sean and Nadia Roberts of Tehachapi face up to three years in prison at their sentencing Sept. 6 after entering the guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Fresno.They own and operate the National Test Pilot School, a nonprofit founded in 1982 at Mojave Airport that trains test pilots. They also own Flight Research Inc., which owns most of the aircraft used by the school.Prosecutors, in court documents, call it the world's only civilian test pilot school. A school official once claimed it is the world's largest private test pilot training facility.Their attorney, Edward Robbins Jr. of Beverly Hills, said the couple was caught up in the U.S. government's investigation of secret accounts at Switzerland's...A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine prob...
It has been five years since SpaceShipOne screamed its way into the history books as the first privately built and financed manned craft to reach space. While that r...
Virgin Galactic Prepares to Unveil Space Liner Monday , December 07 , 2009 By Leonard David Print Virgin Galactic Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan in VMS Eve , th...
2 hurt during failed takeoff from Calif. airportWednesday, February 04, 2009PrintMOJAVE, Calif. — Authorities say a transport plane on a training flight veered off ...
LOS ANGELES – A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday befor...
New Mexico's Spaceport America is no longer the stuff of fancy graphics.The scene is now one of bulldozers and other heavy equipment. Loads of asphalt and concrete a...
The scene is spacecraft manufacturer Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. No doubt, there's plenty of pomp and circumstance that's due t...
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SpaceShipOne a Flight Away From $10MSunday, October 03, 2004E-Mail Print Share:MOJAVE, Calif. — SpaceShipOne ( search ) is one flight away from clinching the Ansar...
Space Tourism Rocket Ship Unveiled; $200,000 Per Person Flights to Begin in 2010Wednesday, March 26, 2008PrintLOS ANGELES — A California aerospace company plans to ...
'Pent-Up Hunger to Fly in Space'Monday, June 21, 2004E-Mail Print Share:MOJAVE, Calif. — Mike Melvill ( search ) is hoping to boldly go where no private enterprise ...
SpaceShipOne Designers Get $10M AwardSaturday, November 06, 2004PrintST. LOUIS — The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Tuesday his plan to create a company that will bring "airport-like operations" to private spaceflight --thanks to the world...
SpaceShipTwo, a privately built rocket plane designed to take tourists on suborbital flights, continues to chalk up more flight time as it glides through the skies o...
To get off the planet requires a really big facility here on the planet. A company has broken ground on the world's first spaceship factory, a 68,000 square foot, 73...
From private spaceflights to NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, the next year promises to be a busy one for Americans in space. Here's a preview of just som...
The scene is spacecraft manufacturer Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. No doubt, there's plenty of pomp and circumstance that's due t...
It has been five years since SpaceShipOne screamed its way into the history books as the first privately built and financed manned craft to reach space. While that r...
New Mexico's Spaceport America is no longer the stuff of fancy graphics.The scene is now one of bulldozers and other heavy equipment. Loads of asphalt and concrete a...
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