Elon Musk plans to make SpaceX HQ into ‘Starbase City’ turning tiny village into high tech spaceport to take man to Mars
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ELON Musk revealed his elaborate plans to turn his company’s headquarters into its own Texas city that could be a gateway to Mars and set him back billions of dollars. The SpaceX boss, who has now moved to the Lone Star State, is set to expand his Starbase site located in Boca Chica Beach, near the border with Mexico.
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Musk, 53, submitted a formal request to local officials on Thursday to put his rocket launch site as an incorporated city on the map. The world’s richest man asked local officials, in a letter, to get an election rolling with residents to change the status of his high-tech spaceport base.
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The letter said: “To continue growing the workforce necessary to rapidly develop and manufacture Starship, we need the ability to grow Starbase as a community. “That is why we are requesting that Cameron County call an election to enable the incorporation of Starbase as the newest city in the Rio Grande Valley.”.
More than 3,400 full-time SpaceX staff and contractors work at the Starbase site. The tech billionaire announced in July that he would move SpaceX’s main office from Hawthorne, California, to Texas due to his disagreement with the state over a gender identity bill.
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This law would bar school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification, which Musk called the "final straw". He wrote at the time: “I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”.
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