SpaceX plans to build an Operations Area on 63-67 acres between the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and Industrial Center. The highlights include 300-foot tall tower housing a launch and landing control center, a booster and fairing processing and storage facility, and a rocket garden:
It will be an operational monument to Elon Musk's vision: a towering SpaceX launch control center, a 133,000-square-foot hangar and a rocket garden rising in the heart of Kennedy Space Center.
According to plans detailed in a draft environmental review published recently by KSC, SpaceX will undertake a major expansion of its facilities at the space center sometime in the not-too-distant future.
The review says SpaceX is seeking more room and a bigger presence "in its pursuit of a complete local, efficient, and reusable launch vehicle program."
The expansion would enable SpaceX to store and refurbish large numbers of Falcon rocket boosters and nose cones at the operations center down the road from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:54PM (5 children)
This is not about going anywhere. The spacex company uses (wage-)slave labor to build rockets and satellites that will be used to enslave them and all humanity. The minimum they are starting out with is shower the entire planet with unnatural harmful radiations so we cannot think properly and would go to sleep and not pay attention to what is really happening to us and our planet in the name of some "cool" space rocket company or other. Remember that the same rockets and technology they use to launch satellites to enslave and harm us were stolen from their enemies (our true friends, the Nazis (OMG!!!!)). Now you know who the real enemies were/are. It is the same characters, albeit with different faces and sometimes even the same faces (e.g. hook-nosed khazar jews).
Another thought: what happens to the launch platforms and the concrete buildings when the spacex company goes out of business and is ended before its time?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:58PM (4 children)
Fuck you
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:47PM (3 children)
Fuck your hero Elong Musky.
You hero-worshipping piece of shit, fuck you.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday June 10 2018, @08:27PM (2 children)
What have you done with your life?
Have you proposed a new way to get past awful city traffic? Have you made electric cars easier to produce and revolutionized battery capacity and production? Have you given us space tech and made advancements that should have been here thirty years ago? Have you thought up a way to skip high-speed rail and came out with something better? Have you tried to make solar afforable to the average person?
Sounds like you jelly.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)
"Have you given us space tech"
Given to whom? I was not given any space tech by musk or his minions. You personally may have been given space tech but most of us weren't. In fact, we are the victims of this space tech. What they do with it is not honorable. They send spy satellites and radio satellites to enslave us. We were never meant to be the beneficiary of any of it. And they know it. But you don't know it. You think musk is doing something for you, he isn't. He is part of the cabal that is here to murder you and your loved ones. He works for the devil.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 11 2018, @01:29AM
You've been a slave your entire life, so that's nothing new. Spy satellites are going to go up no matter what the cost, SpaceX doesn't change that. And they can already see your shitstained pants from orbit.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @04:50PM (5 children)
A 300 foot Muskie Tower of Awesomeness.
Let me guess, the second-tallest tower down there is no bigger than 299 feet?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:11PM (4 children)
There's a rumor that BFR's height will be increased to make it taller than Saturn V and SLS.
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(Score: 2) by snufu on Monday June 11 2018, @01:29AM (3 children)
The phallic competition theory explains these expenditures better than the any gains to scientific understanding. Why not spend this money on unmanned probes which provide actual scientific bang for the buck. Humans aren't going anywhere.
Also, is no one disturbed by the incursion of one person's private vanity statues onto hallowed public property?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 11 2018, @01:35AM
A fully reusable rocket that can deliver 150 tons to low Earth orbit (maybe more with a height increase) certainly advances scientific understanding by allowing for more bang for the buck when launching telescopes and unmanned probes. Try thinking before you comment.
Maybe we shouldn't worship the space activities of the past, but look to the future.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 11 2018, @02:03AM
You can get vastly more bang for the buck, if you don't involve space at all.
Then not much point to learning about the universe is there? The value of science is in its amazing utility. Abandon that and it's just an expensive and complex hobby.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 11 2018, @02:09AM
Vanity phallic statues for Elon Musk is one of the best uses of that hallowed public property in at least a generation. If I were Musk, I'd be a bit worried about the STDs one can catch from this arrangement. Orbital Sciences used to be an up and comer too.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:43PM
Let the muskyfucker crash and die.