Mojave seems to be recovering from the construction of the Highway 58 bypass:

In four years, Mojave Airport has gone from an under-utilized airport and civilian flight test facility to a spaceport with a worldwide reputation as a "Silicon Valley" for the emerging commercial space industry.

New companies are arriving and established tenants are seeing their contracts and payrolls grow.

Companies such as Scaled Composites - which won international acclaim for SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded, manned space program - and XCOR Aerospace are among the cutting-edge aerospace firms outgrowing their existing facilities as they add employees and projects.

This is a classic case of the eb and flow of business in a given area. When mining stopped in the Mojave area, the entire business community literally all but dried up and blew away.

Now the privateer space companies are rebuilding the business base there. Which will bring in others in the business, the suppport business and on down the food chain. Looks like a good time to go to Mojave and open almost any kind of business.

Yep:
http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=77

Now the privateer space companies are rebuilding the business base there.

Until they run out of seed capital in six months.

Until they run out of seed capital in six months.

Who do you have in mind? Most of the companies described have far more than six months horizon. You think that Scaled operates on a shoestring? They've been in business for many years. XCOR has solid contracts. Masten has plenty of money. You should really learn a little about the subject before posting.

Until they run out of seed capital in six months.

There were 2 companies mentioned in the quote: Scaled Composites is funded by Richard Branson for one of their current projects (SS2) that is projected to last years, and XCOR recently won a $3 million contract with ATK to do work for NASA.

I think it's clear that your statement is just chock full of ignorance.

-S

Chris is full of himslef today. We may be a bunch of nutty fundies but at least we can run a business or two for the most part:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/the_bigbang_story_of_us_privat.html

Better to be a nutty fundie than an incompetent secular-progressive going to hell in an Airbus manufactured handbasket.

Is Chris full of himself? I thought he was full of something else, completely. Or should I remove the comma?