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Explosion at SpaceX South Texas facility caught on camera - WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro

Explosion at SpaceX South Texas facility caught on camera - WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro

Explosion at SpaceX South Texas facility caught on camera - WGHP FOX 8 Greensboro
May 30, 2020 1 min, 34 secs

BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas (Border Report) — A fiery explosion followed by a sonic boom rattled the South Texas Gulf Coast during a failed test just before 2 p.m.

Police had closed down the highway to traffic but Border Report had just gotten through the checkpoint 20 miles away en route to film a story in anticipation of Saturday’s planned manned launch in Florida by SpaceX of a crew — the first planned launch of a manned craft from U.S.

SpaceX Founder and CEO Elon Musk in 2011 was wooed to South Texas by community leaders who came up with a $30 million incentive package for the company to build the first commercial rocket launch pad in the country in this poor border region of South Texas.

The SpaceX test facility is located on five acres that were donated to the company, which is based in Hawthorne, Calif., former Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez told Border Report on Friday.

Martinez said the City of Brownsville put up $5 million, the State of Texas put in $15 million, 5 acres of land was donated from the nearby port, and the University of Texas Rio-Grande Valley added $10 million to begin a STARGATE program, which stands for Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research facility.

Gilberto Salinas, who was the executive vice president of the Brownsville Economic Development Corporation at the time they were trying to get SpaceX here, told Border Report on Friday that the company created 500 jobs for the region and paid back the $5 million to the City of Brownsville in less than four years.

Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, vice chairman of the House Appropriations Border Security Subcommittee, said he added language in the 2019 and 2020 budget bills exempting this South Texas SpaceX site from border wall construction.

Filemon Vela, D-Texas, who represents the Brownsville area, told Border Report on Friday: “America’s innovation and abilities are limitless and are exemplified by NASA and SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission.

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