Finally! SpaceX found the best way to kick ass FAA...

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Finally! SpaceX found the best way to kick ass FAA...

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The SpaceX CEO is pushing to speed his Starship off the Earth, but encountering some friction.
The thought of a three-letter government agency preventing Elon Musk, currently the richest person in the world, from doing anything he wants might seem like a bureaucrat’s fantasy. This is the guy who got approval to launch a Tesla into space, who got a street renamed Rocket Road, who even transformed the space business forever.
But Musk’s ambitious timeline for launching Starship, his dream rocket, out of a remote part of Texas depends right now on a pending decision from the Federal Aviation Administration that could add months or even years of delay.
Musk can’t bulldoze past regulations of this particular nature.
But luckily, Musk finally found the best way to deal with the FAA!
What’s that?
Let’s find out in today’s episode of Great SpaceX!

In the past few years, Musk and SpaceX have conjured a space town around it on the Gulf of Mexico, buying up land, building new facilities, and posting a job listing for a “spaceport mixologist.” Musk has even moved into a nearby village himself, after driving out some of the residents. Today, the village, Boca Chica, is almost unrecognizable compared with its pre-Musk form—a quiet coastal paradise turned into a bustling cosmic shipyard.
Even the idea that Boca Chica Beach would become the Gateway to Mars has been associated with the site since its inception. At the 2014 ribbon cutting, Musk positioned the spaceport as a place where history would be made.
Finally! SpaceX found the best way to kick ass FAA...
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To be resolved, thank you.

[jonwatkins]

You forget to say "This is the Guy that saved the USA space program from itself and Russia"

[gareth]

If I were a young man I'd be moving to Brownsville. Now's the time to buy a house there.

[shrikedecil]

NASA: "Heeeey. Why does your 'Crew Access Tower' -- after you peel off the decorative panels, carpet, etc, -- look 98% similar to Mechazilla?!?"

[william]

Rather than EPA recognizing a true hero, they are only interested in throwing-up hurdles!

[virtone]

this is getting comical... 

Musk: "I'd like to launch out of Texas:
FAA: "Just do a crapton of extra paperwork and also some other unrelated things (extortion) and MAYBE we'll give you permission, sometime later."
Musk: "ok then I'll just launch out of Florida instead."
FAA: "No, you can't do that, we don't want to risk our stuff there."
Musk: "It'll be fine. Also, you already gave me written permission to launch from there."
FAA: "but.. but... we'll find a way to stop you from launching from Kennedy!"
Musk: "Good thing I have these two rigs getting converted to launch pads."
FAA: "That won't stop us, ee can block you from launching from anywhere in the USA!"
Musk: "Good thing I can rent some tug boats and move my rigs to international waters."
FAA: "but but but but...."


Powerful people and groups are so used to being able to bully and control others that they sometimes forget that there are a few people out there that have enough money and influence that if you jack with them enough they respond by creating options that bypass what you thought was your total control over a situation. And when you very publicly force someone to work around the roadblocks that you have created, it demonstrates to others that your roadblocks CAN be worked around, and that's the point where your iron grip starts to crack.

TL;DR: lots of money can be very effective at cutting red tape, and in cases like this, I DO approve.

[deezynar]

Which idiot at NASA told Spaxc-X to go ahead with building a launch pad at Kennedy, and later on realizing it was too close to the pad they need for space station launches?
People who do that sort of thing in some other countries end up 'disappeared.'

[rays]

I think Elon will use those ocean platforms to launch the uncrewed tanker Starships to LEO. Those platforms would be located in the western Gulf of Mexico about 100 km offshore from the beach at Boca Chica. Those tanker Starships would be built in the Starfactory at BC that's now under construction. FAA launch/landing licensing will be easier to obtain for those ocean platforms since the problems with nearby residents and ecological concerns are minimal compared to Boca Chica.

Elon has said that he wants crewed Starship launches to occur at the KSC Pad 39A, partially for historical reasons (continuity with Apollo/Saturn and the Space Shuttle, which were launched there). Those crewed Starships and the uncrewed cargo Starships would be built in the Roberts Road Starfactory under construction now at KSC.

It looks like within the next year crewed Dragon flights to LEO will be launched at the new Pad 40 Falcon 9 launch pad. Uncrewed Falcon 9 launches (for NASA, Starlink and other customers) would continue to be launched at the Pad 39A facility.

[stephensfarms]

Awesome news SpaceX thanks so much enjoyed watching 👍👍👍

[mickalloyd]

And yet they let other countrys test nuclear missles/rockets without battening an eyelid!!!

[joisey]

Topic answered in the last minute of the video. First 7 minutes is a rehash of old info.

[davidwebb]

Quicker to pack up, move to Mexico and do it from there.

[Ipadderx]

The FAA needs to stop being a blocker to SpaceX.

[SteveWalkey]

It makes sense to have a backup launch pad for Dragon, being that The ISS crew depend on there being a functional pad and URDs happen sometimes, no matter how safe something is.

[KAUPW]

Nothing new here.. old old old news..
Click bate thumbs down

[Reginaldred]

It's a good idea to have your own Launch pad to explode and not jeopardize KSC launch.

[jbkabss]

There would be no testing of prototypes at Cape Canaveral. Testing in Texas.

[bazoo]

7:40 - Exactly.
And, of course, this has nothing to do with "kicking FAA's (or FCC's) ass".

[SerErris]

So what actually was now the best way? Everything you said was already known and there is still no way available to launch Starship anywhere in November (or this year). There is only way that will happen, and that will be the FAA approving the launch in Starbase. If they don't/delay the start will shift massively into next year, as neither Pad40 in Florida will be ready nor the offshore sites to actually handle a StarShip or Crewdragon.

So he actually did not find any way to kick ass FAA, as the challenge is still depending on FAA to approve - or he just has not solved the challenge.

[rogerrussell]

The Founding Fathers would be less patient than Elon has been.

[robertpettit]

They are complaining about him closing down the road beside the space port so much. Why doesn't he just put in a new road just for transporting his rockets to the pad without using the old road?