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Old Posted Jan 18, 2020, 12:26 PM
shoreditch shoreditch is offline
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This is not even rumoured and entirely in the vein of speculation (and hopefully someone smarter than me can burst my bubble), but is it crazy of me to think it could be SpaceX? Maybe not HQ but an engineering hub for them? Austin sits between McGregor test site and Boca Chica (where they seem to have gone all-in on Starship development to the point they've halted operations at the Cape), and SpaceX has already shown an affinity for preferring the Texas state tax structure/incentive packages. I know Musk likes to live in LA, but they also have greatly reduced their West Coast launches and stated they can't build their new rockets in California cause they're simply too large to use 18-wheelers to ship to FL. Would make sense to build em in Texas and use a barge to get them to FL for commercial launches (in addition to Boca Chica launches). Oh, and NASA is just down the road after all.

Tell me I'm loco haha.
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