Residents increasingly accept that SpaceX will use Starbase mainly as a research and...
: If the FAA postponed the review again, SpaceX might move operations to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it already had approval for orbital Starship launches.
“I’d love to see launches happen here. I don’t want to travel all the way to Florida just to see them,” the 49-year-old South Padre Island resident said. “Not having the launches here, I won’t get the views on my YouTube channel. But that’s all right. I’m not going to cry about it.” Regardless of the outcome, Pena believes SpaceX will continue operations in some fashion at Starbase.As an R&D center, though, it won’t have the same impact. Beyond jobs and investment, SpaceX has contributed to a boost in regional tourism. Fans regularly fly into the area, book hotels and spend money at local businesses as they park along Texas 4 to see what’s happening at Starbase.
But she’s weighing what it would mean if Musk turned Starbase solely into a research and development facility. “If there’s not going to be big-time launches, there’s not going to be lots of people for tourism,” he said.A family enjoys Boca Chica Beach on Friday, July 1, 2022. For years, Elon Musk has touted SpaceX’s compound in Boca Chica as the ‘Gateway to Mars’ — the site from which his company would launch its massive Starship to carry astronauts to the moon and Mars. But South Texas residents now fear Musk is abandoning Starbase as his premiere launch site.
The FAA’s long-awaited approval of the environmental assessment comes with conditions.
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