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The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies.

“It’s pulling together all these amazing ideas about the origins of rocketry in L.A., Octavia Butler’s idea of climate refugees and leaving the planet for the stars, and contemporary issues,” said Weinstein.

Residents have fought SpaceX’s closure of public beaches, protested threats they believe the company’s rocketry poses to nearby wildlife preserves and argued that Starship’s potential to bring local economic benefits has been overblown.

And he sent billions of dollars to support research and expand jobs at NASA’s civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center there.

Those who knew anything about rocketry said it was impossible.