A federal judge has concluded this week that the Federal Aviation Administration did its job in 2022 when regulators signed off on allowing SpaceX to conduct test launches of the world’s largest rocket on the rim of the South Texas Coast at a site surrounded by a delicate ecosystem that…
A federal judge has concluded this week that the Federal Aviation Administration did its job in 2022 when regulators signed off on allowing SpaceX to conduct test launches of the world’s largest rocket on the rim of the South Texas Coast at a site surrounded by a delicate ecosystem that hosts endangered species, including the piping plovers, ocelots and Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles. Thus, in April 2023 when the 394-foot-tall rocket, comprised of the Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster slated to tote humans to Mars someday, subsequently exploded on the SpaceX launchpad just outside of Boca Chica Beach, everything played out as one would expect, right?…