Elon Musk Spacex is obtaining its own official city of the company.
The residents of an area around the Spacex Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted however on Saturday to join as a city, also called Starbase. According to the results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six against.
In a publication in its social media site X, Musk wrote that Starbase, Texas “is now a real city!”
It is believed that residents of the new city are mainly Spacex employees. On Saturday, they also voted to choose three current and previous employees of Starbase, Bobby Peden, Jordan Buss and Jenna Petrzelka, which unopened to serve, respectively, as mayor of Starbase and two commissioners.
Associated Press reports that Spacex has not shared many details about why he wanted to incorporate the area. The company said that it already manages the roads, public services and the provisions of schooling and medical care of the area, and is also seeking to change the county authority to the new city government to close Boca Chica Beach and State Park for launches.
Musk, who recently said that he would reduce his role with the controversial Department of Government Efficiency of the Trump Administration to a “day or two” per week, announced last year that he was moving the inxas of the facial of the Spacex base.
At that time, Musk said that “he had enough to dodge gangs of violent drug addicts only to enter and leave the building” and that the “final tail” was a draft of California that prohibits schools from revealing the sexuality of students without consent.
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After the election last night, a new X account that represents the city published: “Becoming a city will help us continue building the best possible community for men and women who build the future of the place of humanity in space.”
