There are about two dozen launch pads along Florida's coast that have been abandoned for years. And the future of this area looked bleak when NASA's Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.
But times are changing. Sleek, modern buildings are going up all over the Cape, the area on Florida's coastline east of Orlando that includes Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Cape has long been NASA's launch destination of choice, and it's hosted some of the most famous missions in US history dating back to the Apollo moon landings. The new structures brandish the names of new-age rocket companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin.
The Cape's commercial activity was initially buoyed by the 2010 arrival of Elon Musk's SpaceX, which has NASA contracts and a booming business launching satellites.Boeing and SpaceX are also building capsules that can launch astronauts, which could return human spaceflight to the Cape for the first time since 2011.But the commitments from Firefly and Relativity are different.
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