SpaceX's neighbors in South Texas are getting ready to watch Thursday's possible test launch of the massive Starship rocket.
, near Brownsville, for the chance to see SpaceX’s Starship rocket launch into history.
“The ground kind of rumbles. It's not loud at first. But when it gets up above you, and the thrust is still building in you thinking that it should be kind of dissipating, and it's just getting louder. Then you kind of think, where's the car?” said Maria Pointer. Ever since her home was swallowed up by Elon Musk’s project, Maria Pointer has watched the facilities take shape to build and launch Starship, the world’s largest rocket measuring 400 feet tall.This week, she’s hosting nine people at her fishing lease turned rocket-launch-watching campsite.
“We are right on the exclusion zone, right on the edge of the four-mile required exclusion zone,” she said. Pointer’s also invested in photographing and recording the launches and even started streaming them on her
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