Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos space race is heating up, and Texas gets a front-row seat
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This is the first of three articles exploring the two men vying to dominate the commercial space industry and the two Texas towns where they are launching their spacecraft.
Along the southern beaches and western mountains of Texas, two of the world’s richest men are launching rockets.
Geography, wealth and an obsession with space have fueled the enterprises of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But other than murals depicting their skyward-gazing faces in Brownsville and Van Horn, respectively, the two have little in common.
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Spaceflight Insider
Nicholas D Alessandro
May 17th, 2021
Starship SN15 is placed back on the pad for a potential second flight. Credit: Louis Balderas Jr. / @LabPadre
SpaceX remains as committed as ever to its breakneck pace of testing at its Boca Chica, Texas, launch facilities. Starship SN15, which conducted the first fully successful 10-kilometer test flight of the program with a clean, intact landing, was moved back to the launch pad on May 11, 2021, just under a week after that successful May 5 flight.
Observers of the program initially speculated it might be rolled back up Highway 4 to the build facility for inspections and refurbishment, but on May 14, after a few days of high wind delays, SpaceX has put it on launch pad B in a move toward a potential second flight.