SpaceX pulls the plug on an LA Port lease deal, for a second time

The Hawthorne aerospace company SpaceX has terminated a much-coveted lease deal to use 12.5 acres in the Port of Los Angeles to manufacture the Starship, a spacecraft designed to one day head to Mars.
It’s the second time the company has bailed out of pending deal with the port and city of Los Angeles. Officials, led by City Councilman Joe Buscaino, went to extraordinary lengths as they scrambled in January and February to rush through SpaceX’s request for the property on Terminal Is