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Carol Flores, JoAnn Painter, Dick Rutan and Airport Manager Stu Witt hold the new spaceport sign. Bill Deaver photo, courtesy of Mojave Desert News

Mojave Receives Spaceport Designation!

June 18, 2004 - The FAA today designated Mojave Airport as America's first inland spaceport, in advance of Monday's launch attempt by Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne. As soon as the designation was announced, airport crews got busy putting up signs on both the old and new control towers.

Airport crews have been busy preparing for the anticipated thousands of folks that are expected to show up for this historic space launch. A map of the view area is available at www.mojaveairport.com and you can compare that with the photos below.