From booming business to rattling homes, major changes are coming to the Central Coast following approval allowing SpaceX to double its rocket launches out of Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shakes the house. It scares my dog. He gets very frightened,\u201d said Lompoc resident Judy Lauriell.<\/p>\n
While she is signed up to receive launch notifications from the base, Lauriell says she\u2019s not eager to have them increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re going to be going from 50 or whatever to 100, and that’s, that’s a lot,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Under the new decision by the Department of the Air Force, launch activity is expected to increase on base, bringing both excitement and concern to the surrounding community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe consider them like part of our neighborhood and strongly support the activities out at the base,\u201d said Dave Jaskolski, proprietor of the Village Inn in Vandenberg Village. \u201cThe customers that come here are, they’re excited to see launches. It’s a win-win for us as a business. I think it’s a win-win for the community at large.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jaskolski says tourism surges every time there’s a lunch, bringing visitors from all over the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do get people that will call and they ask us, \u2018Can you see, can we see the rocket from our location?\u2019 And yes, you can from our property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to the final environmental impact statement, Falcon launches could increase from 50 to up to 100 per year, including the first-ever Falcon Heavy launches and landings at SLC-6.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worry about wildlife and specifically, you know, off the coast and things like that,\u201d Lauriell said.<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to release its own decision. While it has not announced a specific timeline for when that will take place, it could determine when these increased launches begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From booming business to rattling homes, major changes are coming to the Central Coast following approval allowing SpaceX…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-245130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}