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Lockheed Martin to Make Space Shuttle Successor in Antelope Valley, Calif.(Originated from The Bakersfield Californian)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1996 by Arends, Len
Aug. 13--California City has aspired to become many things to many people over the years -- a quiet bedroom community for commuters from Lancaster and Los Angeles; a source of employees for a proposed prison; a resort oasis in the Mojave Desert to rival Las Vegas.
And now, City Manager Steve West envisions California City as the nation's first space-age suburb.
About half an hour's drive to the south of this desert haven, engineers at Edwards Air Force Base are preparing to test a prototype space vehicle which will prove the technology for the next generation of orbital craft to replace the space shuttle.
Called the X-33, the project will cost more than $1 billion to complete between now and the turn of the century, and will create some 2,000 jobs in...
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