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Tech billionaires choose Southern California to launch their own space companies.
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The Cold War and Pentagon dollars fuel the explosive growth of modern Los Angeles.
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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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This episode establishes Southern California as the undisputed aviation world capital.
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Southern California workers remember the excitement of being part of the space race.
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The idea of the Ansari XPrize is one with history that dates back more than a century.
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The Southern California outlook is due in part to the futuristic influence of space.
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The first pictures of Mars were more difficult to put together than one might imagine.
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Walt Disney and Wernher Von Braun were major figures in the popularization of space.