Continuing coverage: "Next stop, Mars." That could be the boarding call some day from the SpaceX launch facility near Brownsville where SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Texas Gov. Rick Perry helped break ground on Monday. Rocket launches could begin from the private commercial launch site in 2016. The facility is expected to create roughly 300 jobs and pump $85 million in capital investment into Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the Tribune said. The state put up $15.3 million to help land the launch site. The groundbreaking comes less than a week after UTMB released a study showing that the average person is healthy enough for space travel.