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The Texas launch location was projected in the 2013 draft EIS to include a 20 acres (81,000 m 2) vertical launch area and a 12.2 acres (49,000 m 2) area for a launch control center and a launch pad directly adjacent to the eastern terminus of Texas State Highway 4. [3]
Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a crewed suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, [2] and it had also stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack, [3] co-founder and former chief technical officer of id Software.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American space technology company headquartered at the Starbase development site near Brownsville, Texas. Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advancements in rocket propulsion , reusable launch vehicles , human spaceflight and satellite ...
The private rocket and space travel company lead by billionaire Elon Musk came to the tip of Texas in 2014. "They brought 1,700 jobs here and in Cameron County 61,000 jobs have been created ...
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Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson in 2004, is based in Tustin and has its design and manufacturing operations in Mojave, where it also ...
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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