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I'm John Batchel with the author Eric Berger.

Reentry is the book.

Highly recommended to get to you where we are right now, which is waiting for more tests of starship and super heavy.

However, they're testing them in a place called Boko Chica. Where is that?

Baca Chica is the southern end of Texas. If you drive down along the Texas coast past Corpus Christi, past the ranch lands,

and all the way down the Rio Grande River, it's right at the southern tip of the Texas boot.

I love the way they build Bocca.

You have a man who's sent out there to shift, what is it, 600 tons of dirt or something,

that they drop into a swamp to give it a pad. I didn't know that there was swamp underneath

the launch tower. Well, there used to be. They dropped dirt in there and it was too expensive to have

a private company come and haul the dirt away.

So they rented a bunch of backloaders and did it themselves. That's, that's SpaceX for you.

But then they need a facility to build starships and super heavies. So Musk says, well, this is what I

want. And they put up three three tents 400 by 110 and start building

that's what's out there now this ability to manufacture equipment overnight at the place

of origin it and must saw this in one sweep is the way you tell the story yeah he saw this in one sweep about five

years ago and they they built those first giant tents and then you know months and months later they

realized that the tents weren't big enough and so they built permanent facilities and larger tents

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