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SpaceX to build $100 billion launch facility in Louisiana

Louisiana announced a massive new rocket-launching facility for SpaceX in Vermilion Parish on August 26.

Luisa Marconi
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Louisiana announced on August 26 that SpaceX will spend $100 billion on a rocket-launching facility in Vermilion Parish. [1]