 Is SpaceX planning to build the BFR in a Los Angeles shipyard? This is your space pod for Tuesday, March 27th, 2018. Building new rockets often means building new facilities, but for SpaceX's proposed big Falcon rocket, that also means taking things to the sea. The agenda for a special meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Harbour Commissioners on March 15th shows that SpaceX has requested a 10-year lease with up to two renewals of 10 years each. The board documents state that the goal is to construct an operator facility to manufacture large commercial transportation vehicles across 18 acres of terminal island near Long Beach on the former site of Powerboat Component Manufacturer at Southwest Marine. The proposed operations at the site are listed as involving research and development of transportation vehicles and would likely include general manufacturing procedures such as welding, composite curing, cleaning, painting and assembly operations. It's also stated that the majority of operations would take place inside the facility with exterior operations limited to transit vehicles, forklift traffic and the mobilisation of manufactured products onto a barge at the dockside for testing and delivery. The agenda further states that completed vehicles would need to be transported via water due to their size. Thus, there is a need to locate the facility immediately adjacent to the water. It also states that the site would support recovery operations conducted by space exploration technologies, likely referring to SpaceX's drone ship fleet and the first stage booster recovery operations. Given that all the stages of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy can be transported overland by trucks and the BFR is expected to be over 100 metres in length, it's likely that this new facility on terminal island will be developed specifically for the manufacture of big Falcon rocket. The Los Angeles Board of Harbour Commissioners has not yet disclosed when they will vote on SpaceX's proposed lease of the Southwest Marine site and there's been no official announcement from SpaceX regarding it yet. You can try and check the SpaceX Facebook page for updates, but Elon had it deleted. For the latest space news though, be sure to tune into tomorrow's live show every Saturday at 1800 UTC and be sure to like and subscribe. Thanks for watching and until next time, see you on Mars.