Mojave Air & Space Port

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This port made history in 2003 with the launch of SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded human space flight, thus laying the groundwork for commercial space tourism. A replica of SpaceShipOne is on display in the airport’s small Legacy Park, along with a scale model of the Voyager aircraft and an original Rotary Rocket Roton, a manned spacecraft intended to deliver small satellites into space. The Voyager Cafe has some great old photographs. Enter from Airport Blvd, off Hwy 58.

Part of the airport is a huge airplane graveyard (off-limits to visitors) where retired commercial airplanes roost in the dry desert air waiting to be scavenged for spare parts.

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  • Cesar E Chavez National Monument

    Cesar E Chavez National Monument

    25.49 MILES

    This newly designated national monument, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, is the national headquarters of the United Farmworkers of America and was the…

  • Borax Visitors Center

    Borax Visitors Center

    27.68 MILES

    On a hilltop on the grounds of the Rio Tinto Boron Mine, California's largest open pit mine, this museum reeks 'corporate promo' but actually has some…

  • Edwards Air Force Base

    Edwards Air Force Base

    7.83 MILES

    Storied Edwards Air Force Base is a flight-test facility for the US Air Force, NASA and civilian aircraft, and a training school for test pilots with the …

  • Saxon Aerospace Museum

    Saxon Aerospace Museum

    29.01 MILES

    This modest, volunteer-run museum recounts milestones in experimental flight testing in the surrounding desert, including the first breaking of the sound…

  • Twenty Mule Team Museum

    Twenty Mule Team Museum

    29.03 MILES

    Despite the name, this low-budget museum is not so much about the famous teams of mules that transported borax from Death Valley to Mojave in the 1880s…

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1. Edwards Air Force Base

7.83 MILES

Storied Edwards Air Force Base is a flight-test facility for the US Air Force, NASA and civilian aircraft, and a training school for test pilots with the …

3. Cesar E Chavez National Monument

25.49 MILES

This newly designated national monument, Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, is the national headquarters of the United Farmworkers of America and was the…

4. Borax Visitors Center

27.68 MILES

On a hilltop on the grounds of the Rio Tinto Boron Mine, California's largest open pit mine, this museum reeks 'corporate promo' but actually has some…

6. Saxon Aerospace Museum

29.01 MILES

This modest, volunteer-run museum recounts milestones in experimental flight testing in the surrounding desert, including the first breaking of the sound…

7. Twenty Mule Team Museum

29.03 MILES

Despite the name, this low-budget museum is not so much about the famous teams of mules that transported borax from Death Valley to Mojave in the 1880s…