After Elon Musk
announced plans
to build a SpaceX
launchpad at the
southernmost
end of Texas,
nearby residents
grew worried that
their remote beach
community would
be disrupted.
Little did they
know that it would
be dismantled.THE
DAY
THE
ROCKET
CAME
TO
BOCA
CHICA
by Rachel Monroe
Photographs by Kevin Cooley