Will Florida Get Pushed Out of the New Space Age?
From The Atlantic To keep up with SpaceX and others, the historic Space Coast must adapt to commercial needs. In the early 1960s, the Florida Development Commission released a short film promoting Cape Canaveral and Project Mercury, the glorious human spaceflight program taking shape there. According to the well-assured narrator, the Cape—the “Moonport of the free world”—was “so well suited for its role in the space age, it is almost as though it has been destined through the
SpaceX to Launch Commercial Rockets in Texas
Brownsville doesn’t get much national attention, and when it does, it can be an unflattering reference to drug smuggling or illegal immigration. But soon, this Texas city across the Rio Grande from Mexico hopes it will be regarded more positively as a gateway to the stars. SpaceX, the space-transport company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk, plans to build the world’s first exclusively commercial orbital launch pad just northeast of Brownsville along the Gulf of Mexico, Texa
