Indian Harbour Beach

When it's fully operational, SpaceX projects the Roberts Road operations area will attract about 7,500 vehicle trips per day, including employees, customers, contractors, and delivery drivers.

For comparison's sakes, the population of Indian Harbor Beach is about 9,000 residents.

The Nassau Draft Environmental Assessment noted that the aerospace industry salaries clock in 20% higher on average than all other industries.

SpaceX is in the early stages of building a natural gas pipeline across Brevard County, Florida, to fuel future Starship launches.

Oh, beautiful.

This is Dugan from Indian Harbor Beach, Florida.

Just thinking, you know, maybe we could call it November 1st, William Wallace or Braveheart Day.

We had about 70 million cojones to get our freedom back.

They didn't call it that back then, Cape Canaveral area.

We grew up in Indian Harbor Beach, small town there by Melbourne.

And we were there through the end of the moonshot programs.

My father worked loading liquid rocket fuel, oxygen and hydrogen onto the rockets.

We'll do the same with this episode.

So other than watching Perry Mason and having that early interest in space, living over there on that side of the state and kind of watching the development and all that, what else did you like to do when you were in high school and a kid?

Well, since we grew up about a block and a half away from the beach when we were in Indian Harbor Beach, I always liked going over to the ocean.

A little tougher when we lived in Dunedin, but just simply, you know, it was about a three mile bicycle ride.

Randy's house.

I'm driving down A1A in Indian Harbor Beach.

And, you know, the flashy light mid-block crosswalks where they give pedestrians the false idea that they can control traffic, actually.

And I've said it since these things came into being.

I liked floral landscapes.

I grew up here, up in the Indian Harbor Beach area.

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really? Yeah.