SpaceX moving Dragon recovery to Long Beach in 2025, city declares
- by Pasadena Star-News
- Jul 29, 2024
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” … To support these changes, a Dragon recovery vessel will move to the Pacific, where we will utilize existing SpaceX facilities in the Port of Long Beach to support initial post-flight work and operations on Dragon. Post-splashdown, crew and cargo will transit to California ahead of their final destinations, such as Houston, Texas or Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dragon refurbishment will continue to primarily take place at our Dragon processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare the Dragon spacecraft for its next flight.”
Earlier this month, SpaceX owner Elon Musk said he will be moving the aerospace company from Hawthorne to Texas in protest of a state law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that prevents California schools from notifying parents if their children identify as transgender.
Musk later announced that he would also move the headquarters of X —which he also owns — out of San Francisco and into Austin, Texas.
FILE – Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, March 13, 2024. If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package that was tossed out by a Delaware judge, the CEO could deliver on threats to take artificial intelligence research to another firm, or even leave Tesla. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
SpaceX, founded by Musk in 2002, has been a revolutionary force in the space industry, pioneering the re-use of multimillion-dollar rocket boosters to dramatically cut the cost of aerospace missions. The company has earned multiple contracts from NASA for conducting resupply missions to the International Space Station, and transporting astronauts to and from the orbiting outpost with its Crew Dragon capsules. SpaceX is also working with NASA as part of the ambitious Artemis program aimed at establishing a base on the moon, with the larger goal of using the base as a possible launch point for manned missions to Mars.
SpaceX already has significant operations in Texas, where it developing its massive Starship vehicle — billed as the most powerful rocket ever flown — for use in the Artemis program and human/cargo missions to Mars.
Musk announced in 2021 that he was moving his Tesla electric-vehicle company to Austin, however, the company still has manufacturing facilities in Northern California, along with research and development facilities.
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