The Mojave Airport is a perfect place to test
airplanes and sounding rockets, but it is probably
the worst place on Earth to locate the space rocket
launch site -- Manhattan would be better. There is
no ocean to the east of Mojave, so you cannot make
cheap pressure-fed rockets, splash them down and
reuse them. A big city (Los Angeles) is just 100 km
south of Mojave. The nearest pacific coast is 130 km
south west, next to Ventura, California. If you
launch the real thing, you will have to launch it
in the south west direction and hope it will not
fall on Los Angeles.

NASA should make the Kennedy Space Center available
to independent rocket makers.