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Residents of SpaceX’s Starbase launch site vote to incorporate as a city
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
The company said it already manages the area’s roads, utilities, and “the provisions of schooling and medical care,” and it’s also looking to shift authority from the county to the new city government to close the nearby Boca Chica beach and state park for launches. Musk — who recently said he would be reducing his role with the Trump administration’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency to a “day or two” per week — announced last year that he was moving SpaceX’s headquarters from El Segundo, California to the Starbase facility in Texas. At the time, Musk said he’d “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building” and that the “final straw” was a California bill that prohibits schools from disclosing students’ sexuality or gender identity without consent.
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