The manned space program (at least the non-NASA part of it) returns to where it all started – the dust, mothballed airplanes, tortoises, and old diners with magnetic flatware of the Antelope Valley.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) is expected next month to certify that the Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center as a non-federal spaceport to handle horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft.
Check out Alan’s Mojave Airport weblog while you’re at it.