Elton John – Rocket Man
An evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara. This pause is slightly different, and is really two-for-one. The background music is Elton John’s “Rocket Man,” but the visuals are of SpaceX’s future spaceport site at Boca Chica beach near Brownsville, Texas. Apparently someone used a drone to fly over the site and videotaped it. As Sayomara noted, this “shows how far away this site is from being usable.”
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This is only the Vertical Launch Area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceX_private_launch_facility–VerticalLaunchArea–TexasProposal–201304.png
It also looks like they have completed driving piles and are finishing the preparations for foundations to the hangar and water tower, but have not yet started work on the pad itself.
It is hard to tell, from this video, how far along they are with the Control Center area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site#Launch_facility_overview
Very nice!