Comment Re:Texas has regulations? (Score 1) 78
Cuba.
A launch from Florida (in an easterly direction) doesn't look like it might be an attack on Cuba; a launch from south Texas does (or could). The political and technical situations are a bit different today.
Also, spreading the pork around to multiple states/congressional districts. Texas got the facility in Houston.
Oh, and what open water is to the west of Brownsville?