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SpaceX sends Starship into orbit from Boca Chica Beach in historic first
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Area on the Rio Grande River Delta
Boca Chica is an area on the eastern portion of a subdelta peninsula of Cameron County, at the far south of the US state of Texas along the Gulf Coast. It is bordered by the Brownsville Ship Channel to the north, the Rio Grande and Mexico to the south, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. The area extends about 25 miles (40 km) east of the city of Brownsville. The peninsula is served by Texas State Highway 4—also known as the Boca Chica Highway or Boca Chica Boulevard—which runs east–west, terminating at the Gulf and Boca Chica Beach.
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Starship is key to SpaceX's commercial success and NASA's plans to land humans on the moon. This is the 14th flight of the uncrewed Starship, but the first time it reached orbit.
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a historic test flight of its massive Starship rocket early Monday.