But new images taken from early February and just after Kim Jong-un summit in Hanoi with Donald Trump appear to show rapid progress has been made in rebuilding structures on the rocket launch pad.
The New Shepard rocket is designed to be fully reusable and its booster returns to the launch pad for vertical landings after each flight, reducing overall costs.
It contains oxygen and hydrogen that mixes together to form a very explosive combustion, two million pounds of thrust, that gets it off the pad and deeper into space than ever before.
He basically got on a rocket ship that is about to leave the pad, and the rocket ship left the pad, and he kind of went into his head, he got confused and thought he built the rocket ship.
After all, the most common knock against Haiti is that it's the poorest country in the very wealthy western hemisphere. But being poor in a rich neighborhood is not a sin. It's a launching pad.
" A launchpad and a nuclear reactor have a lot in common" -extreme temperatures, and many tons of concrete, and lots of pipes and valves and sensors and controls that must work together with extreme precision.