Photo: Elena Chancy Lhotka / Facebook (via @TeslaOwnersSV)
SpaceX’s Texas site, dubbed Starbase, is home to many towering pieces of spacecraft, and now it’s home to one high school prom couple’s memories, too.
A couple shared prom photos taken at SpaceX’s Starbase in Brownville, Texas on the SpaceX Facebook page last week (via @Tesla Owners Silicon Valley).
The photos show the couple standing in front of a few of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, in addition to one photo of the couple standing in front of the lit-up Starbase sign.
StarBase becoming a place for prom photos @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/mvlaaPpC44
— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) May 5, 2022
The thread’s comments note that one of the couples’ fathers works at SpaceX, but that the areas accessed are open to the public.
SpaceX became the largest private employer in Brownsville, Texas last month, with more than 1,600 employees total.
SpaceX Head Elon Musk and his other company Tesla have offered high school graduates full-time jobs at Gigafactory Texas through a new training program that equips them for factory work.
Although SpaceX had planned to launch its first orbital flight of the Starship reusable spacecraft, it has been delayed again by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
SpaceX launched its Crew-4 Mission to the International Space Station (ISS) last month, using its reusable Falcon 9 booster and the Dragon spacecraft.
