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MOJAVE, Calif., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, announced today that its vehicle developer, Scaled Composites , has been granted an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration for its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceshipTwo, and the carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo.

After seeing a 22-point lead nearly disappear, they held on for their 20th win in a row and a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.

They say in life nothing's certain but death and taxes, but you can add to that list the people who watch a cool video on YouTube and just have to proclaim it a fake, whether it is or not.

With the June 5 primary election less than a week away, some mistakes have been discovered on county election materials.

O NOUVEAU: Canadian queer indie duo's first video "Baby, I'll Give It All" proves that battling over a boy often proves futile in the end.

On May 23, 2012, strong winds of 70+ mph blew through an airplane boneyard in Mojave California and lifted this 747 jet.

Amazing footage captures the moment a 747 jet is blown off the ground in extreme wind conditions.

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AFTER conquering the North Pole and the South Pole there was only one place left for Nigel Peck AM to explore - the universe.

The Stratolaunch system has entered system design review , says team partner Dynetics, a key milestone in designing the unique and complex launch vehicle.

The name will come up a lot today - he helped change the way we make online payments , developed a cool-looking electric car , and now he's making history with the Space X Dragon capsule hooked up to the International Space Station.

Another success for the popular Los Angeles flight school. A graduate of California Flight School - Van Nuys Commercial and Flight Instructor certificate program, Chris McElroy joined the prestigious and world-renowned National Test Pilot School at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave California.

For the last 36 hours or so the "Mothership" shown in the photo has been hanging in the sky over the NW Mojave Desert near Mojave Calif.

MOJAVE, Calif., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- XCOR announced today that it has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware.

NASA's MODIS satellite, which is in polar orbit around Earth, captured this image of the wave cloud that formed over the Tehachapi Mountains of Wednesday.

An unusually active late season weather pattern is expected to bring strong gusty winds to Southern California mountain and desert areas beginning Wednesday.

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A NASA-inspired competition is challenging citizen scientists to build hardware for collecting microorganisms at the edge of space.

In the run up to the historic launch of the first commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station, NASA officials and space entrepreneurs stressed that the results of the test flight should be judged in terms of the overall strategy of shifting manned orbital launches from the government to the private sector.

When I was a grom of about 9, my mom and I would drive north to visit my grandparents in San Francisco.

XCOR suborbital ticket winner Jennifer Brisco sits in a full size model of the Lynx cockpit at the Spacecraft Technology Expo.