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Voters in South Texas, mostly SpaceX employees, have overwhelmingly approved making Elon Musk’s Boca Chica launch site area an official city, now branded Starbase Texas. The decisive 212–6 vote formalizes the company town, demonstrating local enthusiasm for Musk’s audacious community plan.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department,…
South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press.…
Elon Musk's Starbase Is Now A Real City Local Texas outlet KUT News reported that Boca Chica Village residents voted overwhelmingly—212 to 6—in favor of incorporating Elon Musk's SpaceX launch site as an official city, now named Starbase, Texas. The move marks a major victory for Musk…
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