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The spaceflight company SpaceX has made itself a new home: Residents of Texas' Cameron County voted on May 3 to incorporate Starbase, Texas, a city located near Boca Chica along the Lone Star State's ...

STARBASE, Texas, June 10 - The last time SpaceX launched a rocket in South Texas, charter boat captain Eddie Reyes was bobbing in a pontoon boat less than 2 miles from the pad with a group of paying ...

Ms. Gamerman spent seven months documenting the rise of Starbase. She interviewed residents, teachers, lawyers, real estate workers, bartenders, community advocates and Cameron County officials. Mr.

The newest piece of infrastructure coming to Starbase, Texas, isn’t a launch mount or a booster. It’s a water pipeline, and who can hook up a tap (and on what terms) will shape the definition of ...

Elon Musk hasn't only made his mark on the federal government — he's making himself known in local Texas bureaucracy, too. Residents in southern Texas voted to incorporate the area around a SpaceX ...

Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community approve plan to create new city Voters in a small patch of south Texas voted this weekend to give Elon Musk a town to call his own, ...