Solar project gets tentative OK for US loan aid

2010-02-22T22:15:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Huge Calif. solar project gets preliminary OK for $1.4 billion in US loan guarantees</div><div><p>The Obama administration on Monday gave preliminary approval for $1.4 billion in federal loan guarantees for a sprawling solar-energy project in California's Mojave Desert continue to decline, despite years of study and protection since the reptile was designated a threatened species in 1990, experts say.</p><p>Researchers say observations support a gloomy view of...

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

2010-02-24T10:09:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Seattle team wins $900,000 in NASA-backed 'space elevator' competition in Mojave Desert</div><div><p>A Seattle teams has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space — an idea spurred by science fiction novels.</p&am...

$900,000 winner in Space Elevator Games

2010-02-24T10:12:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Seattle team wins $900,000 in NASA-backed 'space elevator' competition in Mojave Desert</div><div><p>A Seattle team has won $900,000 in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator.</p><p>The team...

California firm wins $1 mln lunar prize

2010-02-24T10:26:36Z

<div><p>A California-based firm was named winner of a one-million-dollar prize backed by US space agency NASA to design a craft capable of a lunar landing, a statement said Tuesday.</p><p>Masten Space Systems were declared winners of the US space shuttle Discovery lands in the Mojave Desert on September 11, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base near Rosamond, California

Space Shuttle Discovery Lands After Mission To International Space Station

2009-09-11T21:16:07Z

EDWARDS, CA - SEPTEMBER 11: Space Shuttle Discovery lands in the Mojave Desert on September 11, 2009 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base near Space Shuttle Discovery lands in the Mojave Desert instead of the Kennedy Space Center because of deteriorating weather conditions at the Florida landing site September 11, 2009 at Johnson Valley, Calif.</p><p>If the vast creosote-covered plain that is the Mojave Desert represents to some the grand potential of ...

Bikers blocked from California hotel meeting site

2010-02-26T08:30:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Motel shut down to block weekend Mongol biker rendezvous in Mojave Desert town</div><div><p>The notorious Mongols biker gang has been fenced out of a Mojave Desert motel where hundreds of motorcyclists were destined for a weekend rendezvous.</p><p>City officials shut down the Desert Inn and installed chain-link fencing at the entrances T...

Calif. military jet crashes; pilot killed, 1 hurt

2010-02-27T07:24:46Z

<div id="subtitle">Pilot killed, crewman hurt as jet crashes during military training flight in Mojave Desert</div><div><p>A military jet crashed during a training mission over the Mojave Desert, killing the pilot and injuring another crewman who ejected, the Air Force said Friday.</p><p>Capt. Mark P. G...

Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land

2010-03-03T13:00:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Sen. Feinstein seeks monument status to keep solar, wind projects off 500,000 Mojave acres</div><div><p>California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what s...

Court will rule in dispute over 8-foot cross

2010-03-01T12:21:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Supreme Court will look at land deal that sought to save 8-foot cross in Mojave Desert</div><div><p>The Supreme Court agreed Monday to step into a long-running legal fight over an 8-foot cross that stands as a war memorial in the vast Mojave National Preserve in

Desert Tortoise Money

2009-04-29T05:16:56Z

In this Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, an endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road in the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif. Among land...

Shuttle Departs California

2009-04-22T22:14:30Z

Dec 10, 2008 - Mojave Desert, California, USA - Fresh from the STS-126 mission space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, flew over California's Mojave Desert on its...

Developing the desert: At what cost to Mojave?

2010-03-01T10:21:51Z

<div><p> It’s difficult to reconcile a lush golf course carpeting the desert floor.</p><p>But the discordant landscape makes a fitting cover image for “Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas,” a compact book that examines, in words and photographs, the radical transformation of the Mojave Desert.</p><p>Rel...

Mom allegedly takes daughter to fight, intervenes

2010-02-28T00:56:01Z

<div id="subtitle">Mom allegedly takes daughter to fight another girl, then intervenes when she starts losing</div><div><p>A mother who took her 12-year-old daughter to a Victorville park to fight another youngster has been arrested after allegedly jumping into the fracas. The woman was jailed for investigation corporal injury to a child.</p><p>

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