See the original article here: SpaceX wants to build an offshore spaceport near Texas for Starship Mars rocket

This screenshot from a SpaceX animation shows a Starship spacecraft launching from an offshore spaceport. SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing missions may not launch from terra firma . Elon Musk’s space company is hiring “offshore operations engineers” to help develop floating spaceports for Starship , its next-gen transportation system designed to take people to and from the moon, Mars and anywhere on Earth they want to go. “SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon & hypersonic travel around Earth,” Musk said via Twitter Tuesday (June 16), in response to a tweet that drew attention to the SpaceX hiring notice . […]

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