Elon Musk moves to make Starbase, Texas the official gateway to Mars [Video]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is petitioning a county in the Texas Rio Grande Valley to incorporate its launch site into an official town called “Starbase, Texas,” to serve as the company’s headquarters and “gateway to Mars.”

Months after announcing he was moving SpaceX’s headquarters out of California, Musk exclaimed in an X post last week that “SpaceX HQ will now officially be in the city of Starbase, Texas!”

Located within Cameron County in far-south Texas, Starbase is currently an unincorporated community that serves as the hub for much of SpaceX’s rocket manufacturing, launches and operations, including the historic “rocket catch.”

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The rocket catch is part of SpaceX’s “Starship” program, which is housed in its Starbase facilities and is seeking to make the first fully reusable rocket designed to propel manned missions to establish a human presence on the moon and …