Keith’s note: New Zealand ambassador nominee Scott Brown “I’m not sure our folks understand, but a lot of launches for SpaceX go right out of New Zealand.”

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6 replies on “SpaceX Launches From New Zealand According To U.S. Ambassador Nominee”

  1. 6:40 into the video…I wonder if he was thinking of the 2009 Falcon 1 launch from the Kwajalein Atoll, but even that was 3,500 miles away from NZ!
    This only goes to show how much we are out of touch with the mindset of the rest of the world, when politicians and the general public don’t grasp basic facts, even after all the attention from the dramatic SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage recoveries at Cape Canaveral and just off the Florida coast.

    1. Being well south of the equator, even Rocket Lab out of New Zealand makes little sense except maybe for a few very small payloads placed into polar orbits.

  3. Maybe lack of deep knowledge about SpaceX is a forgivable sin. But one would think that, before making a public statement about representing the United States of America in New Zealand, he would learn all he could about New Zealand.

    You know. Common sense.

    (Plus I guess I thought that Sen. Brown had a somewhat higher profile).

  5. As a bedrock conservative, I’m not in the least bit surprised. When it comes to politicians, they only come in 2 ilks: dumb and dumber.

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