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SpaceX Set To Hire Up To 700, Work On Mars Rocket In Port of Los Angeles

Hawthorne-based SpaceX hope to hire another 700 employees in Los Angeles, at a new site at the Port of Los Angeles, to work on its Mars rocket, according to officials in Los Angeles on Monday. According to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the City of Los Angeles is looking to lease 19 acres to SpaceX at the port for a manufacturing site, for its "BFR" rocket--which Elon Musk would like to use to transport humans to Mars. A vote on that lease will be made on Thursday by the city Board of Harbor Commissioners. The new facility would employ up to 700 people in its operations. In separate, SpaceX news on Monday, the company said it delayed the launch of the NASA TESS mission--aimed at discovering exoplanets around other stars--from Cape Canaveral to Wednesday.