The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was being approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees…
Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. At the time the polls closed at 7 p.m., 173 out of 177 votes were in favor of…
Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long embraced Texas as both a business hub and a playground, launching rockets, building cars, and envisioning a utopian community for his workers on the rural outskirts of Austin.Now, a new Musk venture is nearing success: a vote on Saturday that could officially transform a small area of…
Elon Musk is attempting something few others have in modern history: The creation of his own company town. Musk, already a powerful figure in Texas through his companies like SpaceX, is now taking steps towards establishing a community known as “Starbase”, which will be located near SpaceX’s rocket launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, The…
SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city. Billionaire Elon Musk’s company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase — the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets — into an incorporated city. Residents…