SpaceX groundbreaking in Texas
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (right) joined SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk (center) at the groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 22, 2014, for the company's new commercial launch site at Boca Chica Beach on the Gulf of Mexico east of Brownsville, Texas. - See more at: http://dev.spacenews.com/41957spacex-breaks-ground-on-texas-spaceport/#sthash.FIn0pbRN.dpuf

Monday’s briefing begins with a ground report from Brownsville, where SpaceX is still laying down dirt in preparation for building its Boca Chica Beach launch site.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...