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Currently closures around SpaceX launches are managed by Cameron County, which includes the nearby city of Brownsville and the resort town of South Padre Island.

In 2001, barges struck the Queen Isabella Causeway bridge that connected Port Isabel to South Padre Island in Texas, killing eight people and sending a section of the structure plummeting into a lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico.

A signal showed her off the coast near Matamoros, Mexico, which is just across the border from South Padre Island, Texas.

Kenneth Chang, who has been reporting on SpaceX since 2009, watched this launch at South Padre Island, Texas.

Tuesday when police pulled over a red GMC truck for speeding on the beach at South Padre Island.