Message posted by olowy on January 10, 2009 at 21:46:21 PST:

I think the key to the article is on page 2 where it states "Mojave qualifies as the new Area 51 not because of large military contractors—there's only one here—but because it has lured a critical mass of small, entrepreneurial private-sector players to a freewheeling testbed that's open to anyone with the funding, brainpower and ambition to devise a new way to fly—within the atmosphere or above it."

Clearly they used the title of "new Area 51" as a headline grabber.

In Reply to: New Area 51: Mojave's Desert Outpost Holds Space Flight's Future posted by Robert on January 09, 2009 at 14:19:21 PST:

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