On June 17, 2004, Mojave Airport reclassified itself (part time) as the Mojave Spaceport.

The Sierra Nevada, the fertile farmlands of the Central Valley, and the arid Mojave Desert of the south are some of the major geographic features of this U.S. state.

For example, solar power plants in America s Mohave Desert could supply more than half of the country s electricity needs.

The San Francisco garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia ), however, is an endangered subspecies and has been on the endangered list since 1969.

Eventually, anybody from the President to average citizens could be criticized, labeled an ox demon and snake spirit, persecuted, and listed for death.

Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world, when I eventually reveal the nature of my profession, they look at me as though I'm somewhere between a snake, a monkey and an iguana, and through all of this, I feel, strongly, that something is going wrong.

The APTT (plus 80 20 mix), dilute Russell's viper venom time (DRVVT), the kaolin clotting time (KCT), dilute thromboplastin time (TDT DTT) or prothrombin time (using a lupus sensitive thromboplastin) are the principal tests used for the detection of lupus anticoagulant.

In 2004, there were only two flights two Russian Soyuz flights to the international manned station. And I had to fly three in Mojave with my little group of a couple dozen people in order to get to a total of five, which was the number the same year back in 1961.