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South Texas booming due to arrival of SpaceX

Link here. The article details the major tourism and industry dollars that have come into existence in the Brownsville region since SpaceX established its Boca Chica launch facility, including major development now underway to cater to the tourist business of travelers eager to get a close look at a Starship/Superheavy launch.

The article gives a sense of the reality on the ground. While the anti-Musk activist groups sue SpaceX in their attempt to shut down Starship/Superheavy development, claiming it is harming the region, stories like this put the lie to those claims.

Hat tip to Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.

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7 comments

  • Brewingfrog

    The “sellout” of the hotels on SPI was greatly helped by the fact that Spring Break was in full gear that week. Not that there wasn’t a zillion people heading down to see the launch, as the hotel sellouts in neighboring areas show, but it was a contributing factor to be sure.

    Luckily, my home is only a three-hour drive from SPI. Packing up the truck and heading down is not a problem, just so we arrive at Isla Blanca Park early enough to fit into a parking spot.

    Hopefully, IFT-4 will be close enough to the One Year Anniversary that champagne will be in order!

  • Mike Borgelt

    Old song from the album “Minus Ten and Counting” (on Youtube).
    Captures the spirit of those who want to personally witness history being made although a few words need changing now.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3QeX5GDRaU
    Then there is this awesome anthem for the workers at Boca Chica
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZSTkunGczI
    Turning “cold refin-ed steel into the dreams of spaceflight” indeed.

  • ‘South Texas booming due to arrival of SpaceX”

    I see what you did, there.

  • Gary

    Blair,

    I assume that headline alone with start and FAA and Fish & Wildlife investigation.

  • Dick Eagleson

    Mike,

    I’ve still got a copy of the ‘Songs of the Space Age’ book Off Centaur Publications produced as a companion piece to the ‘Minus Ten and Counting’ album – bought at the 1982 LosCon. You’re right that Leslie Fish’s lyrics to ‘Witnesses’ Waltz’ need only quite minor tweaks to work perfectly for Texas Tank Watching. Mary Jean Holmes’s ‘Everyman’ works fine with no edits at all.

    The only quibble I have with the presciently durable ‘Everyman’ is the notion that those who build the ships will never get to fly in them. I suspect more than a few of the SpaceX hardhats will finish their careers with time on-orbit or on the Moon or Mars in their logbooks. Settling the Moon and Mars is going to necessitate a lot of building of all sorts. Who better to do it than the people who built Starbase as a warm-up exercise?

  • Mike Borgelt

    Dick Eagleson, I have a copy also, bought along with the cassette tape in Melbourne, Australia around 1987 when there was a SF bookstore in one of the main streets in the CBD.
    Leslie Fish’s “Sentries” should have been the Space Force anthem.
    I hope at least some of folks building Starbase get to fly in space and walk on the Moon or Mars.

  • Jeff Wright

    Some of those facilities used to be Beal’s, right?
    That’s a story right there

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