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Hurricane Mesa Test Track is a research and development, test and evaluation (R...
A peak next to the ocean near Ventura that has several aerospace functions. Facilities track and monitor launches of missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Point Mugu, and other sites. Laguna Peak's Naval Satellite Operations Station is part of a network of satellite...
The point at which the eastbound and westbound tracks for the first transcontinental railroad met. A visitors center has been built here by the National Park Service, at this remote site, at the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake. Initially, the Union Pacific,...
With a peak population of nearly 1,000 residents, Terrace was the largest town along the Promontory Branch of the Central Pacific Railroad, a stretch of the first transcontinental railroad that was active from 1869 to 1904, when the Lucin Cutoff made the tracks...
Out in the salt ponds, along the railroad tracks, lies the fabled town of Drawbridge, a former railroad town, which became a fishing and shrimping community. The last resident left in 1979, and Drawbridge is now a collection of crumbling shacks, next to an old...
A major automotive test facility in the Arizona desert, near the Colorado River. It was built in 1955, on top of a former Air Corps training field, and operated as Ford’s primary desert test center until 2006. It was bought by Chrysler in 2007, for $35 million. (Ford...
Tailings from a uranium mine, currently undergoing clean-up as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remediation Act Project. The site covers approximately 30 acres.
The site of Solar Two is currently an empty lot, since the plant was removed in 2009. For more than 20 years this experimental solar facility was the largest of its type in the country (and only one of two similar structures in the USA), and the first of four major...
This 4,500 acre operation is one of the largest and most diverse independent automotive test facilities in the country. A staff of over 600 employees operates the site for private and government clients, with facilities that include a 7.5 mile long, high speed oval...
150 acre complex of playing fields, housing, and related buildings, located on the outer edge of the suburbs east of San Diego. The facility was opened in 1995, and supports several Olympic sports: cycling, on a track surrounding the complex; field hockey, soccer, and...
The undeveloped Albany Dump peninsula (also called Fleming Point and "the Bulb") is composed of fragments of the urban landscape dumped into the Bay up until 1984. Chunks of concrete, twisted metal, piles of shingles, and other debris are visible like a sort of...
A flight and rocket test complex, associated with NASA's Goddard Center, located on three separate sites on the Virginia coast, and totaling 6,200 acres. Most of the facilities are at the Main Base, including a research airport with two runways, aircraft hangars,...
Patrick AFB is the headquarters for military space launches and large missile tests on the East Coast. It is a 2,300 acre base, south of the Cape Canaveral Air Station, the complex's main launching area near the NASA's Kennedy Space Center, with which it is closely...
A remarkable collection of five or so observatories at 10,000 feet on this mountain. The LURE facility, for example, bounced lasers off reflectors left on the moon, to measure tectonic movement on earth. Another, an Air Force observatory, is part of the USAF Ground-...
Built on the highest elevation on Cape Cod, at the northern edge of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, this ten-story antenna, dubbed "the pyramid," scans the Atlantic Ocean and the skies over Europe, as part of the nation's missile and satellite tracking system....
The Desert Training Center (DTC) was an 18,000 square-mile Army training ground used from 1942-1944. General Patton created and commanded the DTC, which was also called the California-Arizona Maneuvers Area (CAMA). During its brief history, over a million US troops...
This memorial museum to General Patton is located off the interstate in a remote part of the Mojave. The museum is located at the site of Camp Young, one of 12 WWII training camps that were part of the 18,000 square-mile Desert Training Center (DTC). From 1942-1943...
A major radio astronomy observatory site, with numerous large steerable dishes. Features include: the Caltech Millimeter Array, which consists of six 10-meter dishes on a configurable track; a solar interferometer antenna array, with two 27-meter dishes; and two Cosmic...
Millstone Hill became an important site in the development of electromagnetic communication in 1957, when a just completed dish built on the site became the first American antenna to track the world's first satellite - the short-lived Soviet Sputnik 1. Antennas at...
Kirtland Air Force Base is one of the most vital and active military facilities in the country, with over 20,000 people working within its secured perimeter, at the south end of Albuquerque. The heavily built up part of the base, generally north and east of the runways...