{"658857":{"#nid":"658857","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The FAA Says SpaceX Can\u2019t Expand Its Texas Launch Site \u2014 Yet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMariel Borowitz, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, talked to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;about environmental concerns delaying SpaceX\u0026#39;s upgrades to its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s always some chance you\u0026rsquo;ll have a failure in that first 30 seconds to a minute, where it would be close enough to the ground where you\u0026rsquo;ll see debris fall. I think it\u0026rsquo;s a very small chance\u0026mdash;and this is what the FAA will quantify\u0026mdash;maybe less likely than being hit by lightning. But the chance isn\u0026rsquo;t zero. What if a rocket blows up and it lands in a wildlife refuge or over someone\u0026rsquo;s house?\u0026rdquo; asks Mariel Borowitz, a space policy expert at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-06-14 15:49:31","changed_gmt":"2022-06-14 20:18:47","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-faa-says-spacex-cant-expand-its-texas-launch-site-yet\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600193":{"id":"600193","type":"image","title":"Mariel Borowitz","body":null,"created":"1513869989","gmt_created":"2017-12-21 15:26:29","changed":"1539182223","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:37:03","alt":"Portrait photo of Sam Nunn School of International Affairs professor Mariel Borowitz","file":{"fid":"228813","name":"Borowitz1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18137,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg?itok=exILNxAv"}}},"media_ids":["600193"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}