SpaceX broke ground this week on the first commercial spaceport on the Texas Gulf Coast. According to CEO Elon Musk, construction of the site should start in the middle of 2015, and by 2016 the company expects to be able to offer at least one commercial flight a month. Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico were all potential locations for the new spaceport, but Brownsville was … [Read more...] about Brownsville may see SpaceX flights by 2016
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The U.S. Gulf Coast at Night
The U.S. Gulf Coast at Night One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this nighttime image showing city lights in at least half a dozen southern states from some 225 miles above the home planet. Lights from areas in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, as well as some of the states that border them … [Read more...] about The U.S. Gulf Coast at Night