How spaceships have transformed California ghost town known as the 'armpit of the central coast' into a booming tourist hotspot

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How spaceships have transformed California ghost town known as the 'armpit of the central coast' into a booming tourist hotspot

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A sleepy California town that was left devastated by the notorious Challenger disaster is experiencing a remarkable comeback thanks to Elon Musk's SpaceX. The little-known town of Lompoc is around an hour from Santa Barbara and has been dubbed by some as the armpit of the Golden State's Central Coast. It was once poised to the federal government's West Coast space operations base and a booming tourist hotspot. But these plans collapsed in the wake of the harrowing January 1986 event that left seven astronauts dead, leading to a long recession.
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