In today’s edition of “Elon Musk is the Absolute Best,” his commercial spaceflight company, SpaceX, just got approved for its very own Spaceport in Texas! That means SpaceX will have a dedicated place to launch test vehicles, send supplies to the ISS, and keep pushing commercial spaceflight forward.
The need for their own spaceport comes from the long list of private companies and foreign entities SpaceX has on its launch manifest. They’ll continue launching NASA-funded rockets from government facilities in Florida, while the Texas spaceport will take over their private endeavors and space tourism.
The FAA’s “Record of Decision” on the matter approves SpaceX “to launch the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital vertical launch vehicles and a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles from a launch site on privately owned property in Cameron County, Texas.” Better step up  your game, NASA. Or don’t; it looks like Musk and SpaceX might have everything under control.
(via Space.com and Engadget, image via SpaceX)
- SpaceX’s amazing Dragon V2 will land humans on objects in space
- Musk also gave Nicola Tesla a $1 million birthday present
- He also made all of Tesla Motors’ patents open to the public
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Published: Jul 15, 2014 04:21 pm