SpaceX has Texas-scale ambitions in the sky. But they’re creating tensions on Earth.
Charter fisher Cliff Fleming has spent most of his adult life here on the southern tip of Texas, making his living off the area’s abundant natural resources.
But now he has a lucrative side business: taking tourists out for fishing and a clear view of SpaceX rocket launches. He calls it a “blast and cast.”
Having a space company next door hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing. Last April, a cloud of concrete dust blanketed his boat – the result of a postlaunch “rapid unscheduled disassembly” (in laypeople’s terms, an explosion).
Still, Captain Fleming says that he loves having SpaceX as a neighbor…
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