SpaceX plan for vast rocket launch site on Louisiana coast sparks backlash

Opponents fear Elon Musk firm’s plan to develop 18-mile strip of Pecan Island will badly damage fragile ecosystem Plans by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a vast rocket launch site on a stretch of Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline have stirred a backlash among some local opponents who fear it will badly damage the area

On August 5, SpaceX accidentally slammed a big chunk of a Falcon 9 rocket into the moon. When I wrote about the possibility of this collision last week, the one silver lining was that, hey, at least we’d get to see what happens when a man-made rocket smashes into the moon. The New York Times…