A science blog with Eric Berger  Is Texas starting to get
serious about the SpaceX opportunity?   Last month Elon Musk
told me Texas hasn’t been doing much to entice his company to
build a spaceport near Brownsville.   Dragon berthed to the
space station. (NASA)  I reported it, and afterward I was told
that state officials were miffed because they have been working
with SpaceX to get a deal done.  Now we’re starting to hear more
detail about the negotiations, in which the state is close to
finalizing a multi-million dollar package to bring SpaceX to
Texas.  SpaceX is in a position of strength after a string of
successes the company has had during the last week, from
launching the first commercial spacecraft toward the
International Space Station to berthing it on Friday. They also
don’t have plans on paper, and they have a viable product to fly
into space.  The company is clearly going to be a major player
in the future of spaceflight and probably human spaceflight
after a series of darn good test flights.  A