San Diego Space Society

SpaceX Tour Recap

Posted by Chris Radcliff in Events on February 17, 2009

Over the weekend, SD Space, OCSS, and Mars Society San Diego members got an impressive tour of the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne (near LAX). I wish I could share photos with you, but we weren’t allowed to bring cameras into the building. Still, in the spirit of You! Are! There!, be sure to read the descriptive and detailed account of the tour over at Tales of the Heliosphere:

The first thing that catches the eye is how spacious and clean the facility is. The building was formerly used for manufacturing Boeing airliners. So, it’s big. The second thing that catches the eye is a white space capsule looking very much like an Apollo, in the center of the room. The third thing noticed is a persistent familiar hum. The fourth thing is the life-size Cylon warrior robot standing next to a pillar about 50 feet away. That’s a Cylon hum filling the air! The Cylon is standing next to a microphone, as if it’s giving a speech. That Cylon sets the tone for the tour. This is no ordinary manufacturing facility.

Thanks again to SpaceXer and former TMS-SD member Joel Brinton for setting up the tour.