Bonus Episode: Cashing In On The Desert
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The UFOs and the Mojave Desert
The original Star Trek, which was shot in Los Angeles and the outdoor scenes were mostly shot in the Mojave Desert around Los Angeles. So of course today, Mojave is really a spaceport and it joins Edwards Air Force Base by a few miles where we tested all of our hypersonic jets Where the space shuttle used to land. We named the space shuttle after Star Trek, the Enterprise. That was the first one. There was this idea that we were reaching some sort of utopian military global space culture. If we could only get to the moon first and then we got to the moon and of course they shut it all down and laid everybody off. But the dream had been that's
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