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SpaceX Texas Launch Site Risks Being Split in Two by Border Wall
- Democrats push to exclude Texas launch site from wall’s path
- Congressional negotiators aiming to settle on deal by Monday
The nose section of the SpaceX Starship test vehicle sits under construction near Boca Chica, Texas on Jan. 4, 2019.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a big stake in the battle over border security being waged in Congress: a launchpad on the U.S.-Mexico border that it plans to use for rockets carrying humans around the world and eventually to Mars.
Democratic lawmakers have taken up the cause of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and are trying to thwart the Trump administration’s efforts to build a border barrier that could cut across the company’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico coast near Brownsville.