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Tech billionaires choose Southern California to launch their own space companies.
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The race to the moon is matched in dollars by a secret military program to dominate space.
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The Cold War and Pentagon dollars fuel the explosive growth of modern Los Angeles.
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This episode establishes Southern California as the undisputed aviation world capital.
Watch engineers and technicians build the next Mars Rover. Plus, send your name to space!
Southern California has hosted some of the biggest events in aviation and has been a hotbed of innovation in space travel since the industry’s birth. Its abundant blue skies hold aloft the American dream. We look back at some milestones from the advent of the airplane through the Second World War.
Once a month, Home Town Buffet becomes a meeting spot for engineers who built Apollo spacecraft.
Southern California produced two of the three stages of the behemoth Saturn V rocket, the space vehicle that housed the astronauts during the journey to the moon.
Author Sharman Apt Russell writes to her deceased father, Captain Milburn Apt, who passed away testing the X-2 rocket plane.
A new four-part documentary mini-series from acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jones showcases a century of aerospace in Southern California and explores the intersection of aerospace and Southern California from multiple perspectives.
Triumphs and failures have been woven into Southern California’s aerospace industry since the beginning, but the risk-taking attitude and forward-thinking culture of the region continues to pull them into this historic region.
