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SpaceX Will Build Floating Spaceports!
Elon Musk's SpaceX is now hiring staff for a floating spaceport! Here's a visualization of the idea:
(SpaceX floating spaceport)
Mr. Musk tweets.
SpaceX is hiring for Offshore Operations Engineers in Brownsville.
— Gavin - SpaceXFleet.com (@SpaceXFleet) June 16, 2020
From the post: "Work as part of a team of engineers and technicians to design and build an operational offshore rocket launch facility"
With thanks to @CowboyDanPaasch for the scoop.https://t.co/S0i8BM04KL
Nobody can hold Musk and SpaceX back once their launch facilities are in international waters.
Fans of scientifiction of the 1930's may recall the artificial island spaceport from Between Earth and Moon (1930) by Otfrid von Hanstein.
It was a remarkable island, circular, about half a kilometer in diameter. It rose from the sea, floating on it and fastened to the bottom only by strong anchors. It actually was a huge hemisphere of metal and concrete, open underneath. Above it was shaped to a single perfectly level platform, which rose so high above the water that it was not splashed by the waves. From this platform steps led down to the water all around. On all four sides, ribs several hundred meters long extended out into the sea, forming four harbors which could be used according to the direction of the wind.
(Artificial Island)"Hey! Look here!"
No answer - nobody - no guard at the shore. There was only the great steel colossus, which held the upright rocket in its spidery arms as if in a tender embrace, rising up alone in the air.
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