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Elon Musk’s space company to build new rocket launching site in Louisiana - AP News
SpaceX plans to spend $100 billion building a massive new spaceport in Abbeville, Louisiana, the company and state officials announced Tuesday, in what Louisiana Gov.
Landry made the announcement at a special event for lawmakers and other guests, where a promotional video featuring both Landry and Elon Musk played before the governor's remarks. Musk did not attend in person. The governor described the moment as "nothing short of a transformational moment" for Louisiana and the country.
The new launch site would give SpaceX a second major domestic footprint for rocket operations. For folks in Lubbock, this headline lands differently than it might elsewhere. West Texas already lives with SpaceX's presence nearby, with Starbase operating down in Boca Chica, and the company's expansion ambitions have long been a topic out here. A $100 billion investment in Louisiana signals SpaceX is scaling far beyond what a single Gulf Coast site can handle.
Whether that changes anything for South Plains residents directly is unclear from what's been announced, but the sheer dollar figure makes this one of the largest private infrastructure commitments in American history.
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How much is SpaceX spending on the new Louisiana spaceport?
- SpaceX plans to spend $100 billion building the new spaceport in Abbeville, Louisiana. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the deal at a special event for lawmakers, calling it as significant as the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Elon Musk did not attend in person but appeared in a promotional video.
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