On any other part of the planet this midcentury modern house might seem out of place. But in Palmdale, California, a city north of Los Angeles known as the “Aerospace Capital of America,” it looks for all the world like a Hollywood filming location.
Palmdale, surrounded by rugged desert terrain against a backdrop of mountains, has been a proving ground for United States military aircraft for decades. NASA maintains an Armstrong Flight Research Center site there at the U.S. Air Force Plant 42. Aerospace is a principal industry.
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