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grateful, but at the same time we depend upon him for reporting right now all these decades later

on the transformation of Big Space into commercial space. And we begin with Big Space's

little brother, the fAA making an adjustment

of the okicca bob i won't call this more than an adjustment it's not a surrender the fAA is

faceless but what has happened good evening too good evening i wouldn't call the fAA the little brother

of commercial space.

I would call it the evil twin brother.

But nonetheless, the FAA had announced several months ago that was going to do a new environmental

reassessment of SpaceX's Bockechika facility because SpaceX wanted to increase the number of launches.

They announced public meetings, and then they canceled those public meetings and canceled everything.

And my guess then was this had to do with the election. They decided they needed to wait until after

the election before they proceeded. And until after the election before they proceeded.

And so after the election, they have now announced that they've issued the revised draft environmental assessment, and it basically approves SpaceX's request to increase the number of launches

annually at Bocah, from 5 to 25 per year.

Now, that is a draft environmental assessment and decision by the FAA.

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