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Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Los Angeles Times
A launchpad on the U.S.-Mexico border, which it plans to use for rockets carrying humans around the world and eventually to Mars, could be split in two by the Trump administration's planned wall... Lawmakers said they were concerned about the effect on the company's 50-acre facility after seeing a Department of Homeland Security map showing a barrier running through what they described as a launchpad...
James Gleeson, a SpaceX spokesman, declined to provide details on how the fence would affect the facility. "The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently requested SpaceX permit access to our South Texas Launch site to conduct a site survey," he said in a statement. "At this time, SpaceX is evaluating the request and is in communication with DHS to further understand their plans...." Musk is working on a new, more powerful vehicle known as Starship to eventually ferry humans to Mars. SpaceX recently announced that it would test the Starship test vehicle at the site in south Texas.
James Gleeson, a SpaceX spokesman, declined to provide details on how the fence would affect the facility. "The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently requested SpaceX permit access to our South Texas Launch site to conduct a site survey," he said in a statement. "At this time, SpaceX is evaluating the request and is in communication with DHS to further understand their plans...." Musk is working on a new, more powerful vehicle known as Starship to eventually ferry humans to Mars. SpaceX recently announced that it would test the Starship test vehicle at the site in south Texas.
It's no dirty secret.. It's just how it is and always has been. Everybody knows you cannot just build a wall in the middle of a river, which is the border between Texas and Mexico... Well, anybody who knows anything about the geography of the area and what defines the border.
But the idea that the wall is "miles" inside the US border is not true though. Sure, it's on US soil, and due to access issues and immanent domain problems from hesitant land owners who don't wish to be cut off from the water in the river due to the wall, it is cheaper and more efficient in cost to build back from the river in some cases. However, I don't figure very many folks would like to live on the OUTSIDE of this wall...At least until it is completed and the illegals stop traipsing though this land leaving trash, dead bodies, fires and a basic ecological nightmare behind.