Boca Chica, TX, about 20 miles from Brownsville. From what I've read, NASA had no presence there and SpaceX built their facility from scratch. SpaceX has made offers to buy out all property owners in Boca Chica at 3X the appraised value.
Ah, I thought they were doing the testing from from the same place they've been launching the Starlink missions from, which is a NASA facility. I never thought to check that.
In articles from 2019, there were only about 35 homes in Boca Chica, TX when SpaceX began building their launch facility on the beach. SpaceX offered to buy out all property owners at 3X the appraised value of their property.
In other words, they dicked SpaceX around for fuck all good reason, then had to come up with this excuse when Elon called them on it publicly
They coming at us hard.
Listen, bigot. China doesn't want SpaceX to one up them. Didn't you get the memo? We all chineeeeeeeeese, now. /s
Pretty strange that PedoJoe's DOJ is going after SpaceX for not hiring a ChiCom.
Weird, even.
Keep in mind this is being done from a NASA launch facility.
come again?
Brownsville Texas is NOTHING TO DO WITH NASA
Did the FAA fine NASA when they rained bits of space shuttle across the whole state?
Boca Chica, TX, about 20 miles from Brownsville. From what I've read, NASA had no presence there and SpaceX built their facility from scratch. SpaceX has made offers to buy out all property owners in Boca Chica at 3X the appraised value.
yup, and AFAIK, only two have not sold out.
They also have not complained about SpaceX
Ah, I thought they were doing the testing from from the same place they've been launching the Starlink missions from, which is a NASA facility. I never thought to check that.
In articles from 2019, there were only about 35 homes in Boca Chica, TX when SpaceX began building their launch facility on the beach. SpaceX offered to buy out all property owners at 3X the appraised value of their property.