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The smog is extensive enough to be visible from space.

In August the BBC had learned that the prison system "came within 100 places" of running out of space altogether.

“Elon Musk is wealthy, but he’s not wealthy enough to completely fund humans to Mars. It needs to be a public, private partnership, because of the tens of billions of dollars that this would cost, or even hundreds of billions dollars,” said Laura Forczyk, executive director of space industry consulting firm Astralytical.

And without a pressing geopolitical threat, Congress may be unwilling to spend more on space exploration, as it did during the 1960s with the Apollo program, Forczyk said.

Elon Musk’s announcement that he’s moving SpaceX headquarters to Texas could present a blow to Hawthorne and the Southern California space economy that it helped to revive.