The Los Angeles hackerspace CRASHspace, of which I am a co-founder, took a drive out to California's Mojave desert to visit the Friends of Amateur Rocketry and deliver some gifts. It was quite an adventure, as the mini-documentary video we produced should demonstrate.
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11:42 am Thu
Feb 17, 2011
Visit to Friends of Amateur Rocketry, in Mojave desert
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