SpaceX has petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an experimental permit and vehicle operator license from the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation to launch manned SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy rockets into orbital flight.
In reviewing the request, the agency is preparing a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) that looks at public safety issues, national security and foreign policy concerns, and potential environmental impact, among other factors.
The public is invited to offer comments on the request, and online public hearings are scheduled for 5 p.m. on Oct. 18 and 20.
(Copies of the draft environmental assessment are available on the faa.gov website, Cameron County judge’s office or Brownsville public library branches. All comments, both pro and con, are valuable and can be emailed to SpaceXBocaChica@icf.com. We encourage all concerned to offer their thoughts on a proposal that can greatly affect the Valley’s future.)
When Space Exploration Technologies founder Elon Musk secured the first permits to develop a rocket launch site at the mouth of the Rio Grande in 2014, initial plans were to send (12) unmanned Falcon rockets (a year) to send supplies to the International Space Station and place commercial satellites in orbit.
Permits and impact statements from the FAA that found such a facility would not have any major or negative impact on the area, were based on those plans.
SpaceX then changed this and moved rocket manufacturing and testing facilities from California to Boca Chica.
SpaceX then changed this and moved rocket manufacturing and testing facilities from California to Boca Chica.
The local site now is home to the development of some of the largest and most powerful rockets ever built, with engines and propellants that are far more powerful than those upon which the original FAA permits were awarded. And while failures and explosions are always possible at a rocket launch site, they are more common at the kind of testing facility that Boca Chica has become. We already have seen some spectacular failures there, and they’ve raised new concerns about their possible effect on the sensitive ecosystems that exist in South Texas, and in some cases nowhere else.
We haven’t hidden our support for SpaceX and the benefits it has brought, and can continue to bring, to South Texas, in terms of economic growth, educational opportunities, and even prestige. At the same time, we recognize the need to thoroughly vet all plans for the future. All voices should be heard, all concerns should be addressed and all risks should be mitigated.
We haven’t hidden our support for SpaceX and the benefits it has brought, and can continue to bring, to South Texas, in terms of economic growth, educational opportunities, and even prestige. At the same time, we recognize the need to thoroughly vet all plans for the future. All voices should be heard, all concerns should be addressed and all risks should be mitigated.
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A New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded
Now they’re preparing to fight a new civil war. In fact, they're already doing it in all but name.
Republicans are evil.
I wonder: Was it this silly when Cape Canaveral was built by NASA on the Florida coast?
No.
El blogger Jim "Manteca" Barton is angry, my friends. He wonders about an award the BCOC won, asking himself (and the walls) if perhaps Brownsville paid to win it.
"I will hand deliver the Public Information Request on Monday to their office at 500 E. Saint Charles Street," escribe el valiente.
He is doing this after walking away from the Trey Mendez story he butchered only days ago, leaving it with more questions than he answered.
Pobre Barton. Vale sebo, el wey.
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El Paya Jerry McHale has stopped blogging.
He has learned that shitty blogging eats up time and time is short when you're in your 70s.
Un dia mas es un dia menos, putos!
Let em have the whole beach for five years and see what he does with it. Us locals can revisit Baghdad beach or La Pesca and stimulate their economy. Ya think he’ll let us in on the IPO when he goes public? (spaceX) or will only the b’ville insiders receive that opportunity. Y’all keep bellyaching and he’ll pick up his toys and move elsewhere. Ain’t much to have to move by the looks of things.
Pinche enano culero. Ya chingaste al pueblo suficiente. Tax breaks and free money. No vales madre. Y la pobre gente del pueblo que? You no property taxes because of historic designation and the grant money is tax free. I have to work for my money bitch and I have to pay taxes. Pinche rata.
All comments above by Ted Hasse
Do all you vaccinated government vacas know that Pfizer is forecast to make $33.5 billions on covid-19 vaccine sales. I wonder how much is veggie Biden cut???
Pfizer’s vaccine forecast could still grow fuking more, because it doesn’t include a supply deal with the United States. Pfizer is in talks with other countries for more contracts to distribute all of the three billion doses it expects to make this year.
Securing these additional contracts would probably push vaccine sales for this year to $43.5 billion, said Ronny Gal, a pharmaceutical analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. That would surpass Pfizer’s entire revenue last year of about $42 billion. Now you know pinche mind-shit Lab rats! Forcing vaccination is all about making chingos of $$$$$$$$$$$$! "Screw your freedom" - Arnold Schwarzenegger! Hahahahaha!
BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE’LL BE EXPOSING TRUMP’S TRAITOROUS ASS
The new president laughs in the face of the old president’s “executive privilege” request.
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If we truly want to be the next Cape Canaveral, we are gonna need to get with the program and Back Musk 1000%….
Stop bitching about saving weeds and rodents, and start helping him get flying.
Screw the Audoban society.
Brownsville needs “Tamales on Tables” for its people, not weeds for the rats to run around in a Boca Chica.
El Paya de Jerry thinks his son has potential to play college football. El chavalo de caer solo, lol. Not even Division 3!!!!!
Sure they'll listen, just like they listened to anti-L.N.G voices? Their agendas and decisions are already set. It's just a process and make you think your voices matter, the city, school board, county, PUB and the port do the same thing.
Juan, Da Blimp is doing “research” on the Coca Cola Building that Manteca Barton and you have blogged about. He will soon come out with a story saying something to the effect that unlike you and Manteca Barron, well, he does his research and doesn’t jumó to conclusions.
He will take an angle as if he is helping the vertically challenged Mayor Mendez…. In hopes to get his trust back, so he can get close to him and finish sticking his Vienna Sausage in his little rectum. Jajaja…. Da Blimp is doing research, bro! Vato inútil!
12:39 pm hey Puto, you know how el paya always calls Brownsville the third capital of the word if only he'd think that it is in this 3rd capital where the payaso that he is earned his retirement. That it's because of Browntown that he fed his wercos and his dumb ass viejas. You know that in town there are worse payas than him because he found someone to repoduce with, and we all know that he degrades women. Ah, and you know what else one of his sons works for BISD. For someone who puts Brownsville as third class el paya sure found a good teta. Pendejo that he is y sus wercos le salieron todos morenos. I have started to think too que no son de el. El paya talks about women like he did not come out of a "sore infected pus dripping pu**y." Come que si no tuvo madre and who know maybe he didn't ahi lo parieron y lo dejaron arias de la Tierra. Poetic justice would be that the student he is so proud to have beaten up would end up taking care of Him Cuando no se pueda limpiar la cola el baboso of course para que no se la limpien. El Paya aka El Pendi ya lo buautise Otra ves one and the same. La Zorra no se Mira su cola because asi como Brownsville es 3rd class el paya esta de degenerado. Later Puto.
@5:43 Biden isn't announcing anything idiota! He can't even wipe his own a$$! Hahahahaha!
Hasse for mayor.
For 8:26 a.m. And the democrats are the sons and daughters of the devil. Have a nice day in evil Brownsville.
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