Vermilion Parish senator wants to join the ‘new space race’

By: Dean Boudreaux, The Current

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: July 25, 2026

Words: 736

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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Around 200 Vermilion Parish residents packed the Abbeville Rotary Club’s largest meeting in its 90-year history Wednesday, hoping to have their questions answered and learn new details on a rumored aerospace company land deal on the parish’s coast

They received some answers and plenty of reassurances from their representative in the Louisiana Senate, Bob Hensgens.

The possible project would be part of a “new space race,” he told the assembled crowd at the Erath Community …

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