SpaceX leaving California? Not entirely. Elon Musk’s company moving Dragon spacecraft splashdowns to Long Beach from Florida [Video]

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — Less than two weeks after Elon Musk announced SpaceX was leaving California, he is moving some operations from the coast of Florida to Long Beach.

The Port of Long Beach will be the new home to SpaceX’s Dragon recovery vessel.

“Excited to share a Space Beach update! Long Beach will be the new home to @SpaceX’s Dragon recovery vessel as their West Coast Recovery Operations team based out of the @portoflongbeach will welcome back both @NASA and other private astronauts who are returning to Earth from orbit and beyond,” Mayor Rex Richardson said Sunday on X.

The company says the move is intended to reduce risks associated with re-entering debris from the spacecraft.

On July 16, Musk said he would move the company’s headquarters from Hawthorne to Texas in protest of a new California law that prevents schools from notifying parents of a student’s gender identification change.

He called the law “the final straw.”

“I did …