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which is this kind of flat, open, beautiful country highway that goes basically out onto the Gulf of Mexico

or Gulf of America, depending on which side the political

divide you sit on.

Oliver Loughland is Guardian US's Southern Bureau Chief, and he recently took a journey to a site

from where man, one man in particular, hopes to explore a new frontier.

And it's surrounded by ranchlands, by wetlands.

You see huge flocks of birds flying across the highway.

And then almost kind of out of nowhere, these vast structures just appear on the horizon.

Some of them are the star base facility itself, which is a kind of hulking mass warehouse production site.

And then there are these others that are these sort of shimmering stainless steel objects.

And as you get a little bit closer, you realize what they are.

And they are Musk's pioneering starship rocket, which is the largest rocket that's ever built when it's

sitting on top of its booster, it's 400 feet tall.

Starbase in Cameron County, Texas, has been the home for the last decade of Elon Musk's

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