Zone of Silence

An area where radio signals and any type of communications cannot be received.

Once upon a time in 1970, a military training rocket went off course and accidentally invaded Mexican airspace. Somehow landing hundreds of miles off-course, the rocket buried itself in the desert region of Durango, Mexico.

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Travis S. Taylor

Travis Shane Taylor was born in Decatur, Alabama on July 24, 1968. His father, Charles Taylor, worked for Wyle Laboratories, as a machinist, who subcontracted with NASA in the 1960s building America’s first satellites with Wernher von Braun. At 17, Travis built a radio telescope that won the state science fair, placing 6th in the nation.

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