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Remote Mojave Desert Town Blasts Off Into the Future

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The Mojave Desert might seem like an odd place to begin a show about innovation. But stick with us a minute. Remember the experimental passenger spacecraft called Space Ship Two that crashed there during a test flight back in October? That craft was born in the town of Mojave -- population 4,500. A growing number of young rocket scientists and entrepreneurs are slowly transforming this remote desert outpost into a space industry boomtown. The California Report's Los Angeles bureau chief Steven Cuevas reports.

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