$1M lawsuit blames SpaceX rocket testing for Waco home damage
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- May 06, 2024
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SpaceX tests a rocket engine at its plant in McGregor in 2011.
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The suit argues that SpaceX's conduct of rocket engine testing at the McGregor facility "proceeded with conscious indifference to the rights, safety or welfare of others."Â
Leslie also accuses SpaceX of "gross negligence" and seeks "an award of exemplary damages in excess of the minimum jurisdiction limits of the court." The suit asks for damages between $250,000 and $1 million as well as interest and attorney's fees.
The Corpus Christi law firm of Carrigan & Anderson PLLC declined comment when reached by the Tribune-Herald on Monday.
SpaceX tests rocket engines at its McGregor facility.
Dennis Underwood, SpaceX, provided
Neither SpaceX's media relations office, nor the company's registered agent Corporation Service Company in Austin, could be reached for comment Monday. Court records did not indicate Monday that SpaceX had been served yet with the suit.
Leslie bought the home in May 2021, McLennan Central Appraisal District records show, more than 13 years after SpaceX's first test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket at the McGregor facility.
He filed the suit April 26 in Waco's 170th State District Court.
According to the SpaceX website, the facility has 16 testing stands and "validates for flight every Merlin engine that powers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, and every Draco thruster that controls the Dragon spacecraft."
SpaceX launched its colossal Starship rocket to near orbit in space before it was lost while returning to Earth, a notable improvement after the first two missions ended quickly in explosions. Bloomberg's Loren Grush joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Technology."
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