Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, named for its giant pink granite dome rising from the Llano Uplift, spans the border between Gillespie County and Llano County, south of the Llano River and some 24 km north of Fredericksburg, Texas.
SpaceX has been conducting its East Coast launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but they hope to return to their SLC-40 launch site in Cape Canaveral for the Falcon Heavy. SLC-40 is still undergoing repairs, after SpaceXâs last Falcon 9 explosion over a year ago. An alternative launch site, the Kennedy Space Centerâs 39A, is being modified to accommodate the Falcon Heavy.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch is scheduled for Tuesday, February 6. The initial launch payload is a Tesla Roadster â and Elon Musk posted an Instagram photo of the car with a dummy driver, called Starman, wearing the SpaceX spacesuit. If the launch is successful, the Tesla could travel in its Mars orbit indefinitely.