After the separation, SpaceShipTwo, manned by two pilots, flew freely for 11 minutes before landing at an airport runway followed by the mothership.

The Voyager crew worked on the plane in a small building at an airport in California's Mojave Desert.

That means that you can enjoy broadband Internet access regardless of whether your home or business is located in a major metropolitan area or in the middle of the Mojave desert.

Salt's impressive energy-hoarding was first demonstrated ina pilot project in the Mojave Desert, Solar Two, between 1994 to1999.

The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Latter-Day Saints who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century.

Here in the Mojave Desert animals have had millions of years to adapt to the harsh environment.

It's a deep pit in the Mojave desert. But it could hold the key to America challenging China's technological domination of the 21st century.

In this picture from the 2009 Geminid shower, a bright meteor with a greenish tinge flashes through the sky over the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, USA.

In this picture from the 2009 Geminid shower, a bright meteor with a greenish tinge flashes through the sky over the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, USA.

The Westlands project has won the backing of groups that have opposed building big solar projects in the Mojave Desert and have fought Westlands for decades over the district’s water use.

Virgin Galactic is offering flights to space for $200, 000 from a spaceport in California’s Mojave desert, starting in 2011.

And we hadn't even reached the Mojave Desert yet.

Later this year, she will be shooting her short film, Exiles, in the Mojave Desert.

The competition will be at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.-- a vast installation in the Mojave Desert region east of Los Angeles.

Death Valley is part of the Mojave Desert. It lies mostly in the western state of California although part of it reaches into Nevada.

NASA has tracked and communicated with Deep Impact by using its Deep Space Network, with sites in the Mojave Desert, Spain, and Australia.

In the Mojave Desert, Mandy places Martin Belkin’s identification card into a homing case, and buries it underground.

U. S. Supreme Court says that a memorial out in the Mojave Desert does not violate the U. S.

The photo here shows Baumgartner in a high-altitude test jump last year, somewhere way above the Mojave Desert in California.

Some scenic spots there include the Big Sur coastline, the alpine beauty of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the awesome Mojave desert.