“I don’t think they ever envisioned the sort of stresses that are coming,” the executive director of New Mexico’s Spaceport America says of the FAA.
BOCA CHICA BEACH — At dusk on the evening before a recent Starship launch, dozens of people wandered the tidal flats around Starbase, staring up at the skyscraper-sized rocket looming over them. The hum of machinery drowned out the sound of the ocean breeze as workers on boom lifts hundreds of feet in the air worked on the giant ship.
Launching success: SpaceX Starship fans boost Rio Grande Valley businesses Such easy access to view the giant stainless steel rocket — combined with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hype, his loyal fan base, his company’s success with reusable spacecraft, billions in federal contracts and a booming space economy — has made Starbase a tourist destination for fans from around the world. It’s also one of the factors that make it unique among the nation’s 18 active launch sites.
A timeline of SpaceX in Texas: From its first testing facility to a quest to rename a coastal town At Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas, the 60-foot-tall New Shepard rocket blasts off and lands on the company’s private property, which is far from populated and protected wilderness areas. Its capsule only ferries passengers to the edge of space for a few minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth.
SpaceX says its South Texas operation having multibillion-dollar impact SpaceX said this month it’s invested more than $3 billion in infrastructure at the site, created more than 3,400 full-time company and contractor jobs and generated more than $800 million in state and local tax revenue. That growth — along with growth of the commercial space industry both in the U.S. and around the world — is pushing the FAA to keep up.
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