How Spacex Elon Musk can take over the corner of Texas Beach
Spacex fired for Mars, with rocket company Elon Musk racing to bring humanity closer to becoming a multi-planlet species. Back here, the leader of the Department of Efficiency of President Donald Trump (DOGE) hopes that his company will get the opportunity to start his own government in Texas.
Starbase is a place to research, launch, and test rockets and it can soon be the latest city in America.
However, this is not your typical city; This will be a community community that is now filled with most SpaceX employees.
Its size is less than two square miles and binds to the Nature Reserve of Texas and Boca Chica Beach along the Gulf.
Signs for Starbase highlight SpaceX ambitions to reach Mars.
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Last year, a petition was submitted to the state of Texas by SpaceX to create a new city; The new municipality will function as its own city with the ability to make firefighters and emergency services themselves, even school districts.
Some hundred registered population today, including MUSK itself registered to vote in a speech in the proposed city, now votes to make it official – what was once a small beach community that is sleepy on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas, can be officially known as Starbase City.
The house of Brownsville Rene Medrano is located 20 miles from the coast. After going to Boca Chica Beach as a child and brought his own family as soon as he grew older, Medrano told ABC News that he was in his blood.
“It is called the beach of the poor because you don’t need to pay anything to go to the beach other than just enter your car, enter your truck, gather neighbors, collect cousins, gather aunt and uncle and let’s have fun,” he said. “And to see now as it is … it’s just that, disappointing as it is.”
Spacex launched the first spaceship ship in April 2023; Managed to come out and clean the launch foundation, then lost control over a super heavy booster engine. The company said it triggered a starship flight stopping system after the booster failed to separate and turn the planned track.
Residents of Brownsville Rene Medrano have used Bota China during his life, and worried about Spacex who limits his ability to continue to go there.
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However, the company laid the foundation for something much larger more than a decade ago. Medrano remembers a SpaceX representative to go to his wife’s school to throw a “small test location” in 2014, but said the person told the locals that the beach would still be accessed by them.
“Who ever thought they wanted to go to Mars 10 years later?” he said. “I mean, it was never in the formula. You know?”
Since 2014, Spacex has had eight launch from Boca Chica with a staggered success. Now, the company asks FAA to give permission that will allow Spacex to launch up to 25 times a year.
“You have many visitors who go to the island to see the rocket launched. But then the people leave,” Medrano said. “We saw a spacecraft explosion. We saw the environment, you know, with all the launch of the rocket torn around the area. We saw Boca Chica Beach as we know – we don’t know that place anymore.”
Bekah Hinojosa, who led the local environmental group, told ABC News that Spacex had disrupted everyday life in the area.
“The launch of the rocket is dangerous. They cause our house to shake. Spacex has been captured illegally to throw water contaminated into Boca Chica Beach, into our ecosystem,” he said. “Rent up. And it’s all related to, you know, Spacex comes to this area and colonizes the area.”
Spacex Spaceport is beside Bota Chica Beach, making locals worry about access to sandy coastlines.
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If this area becomes its own municipality, Spacex wants control over the nearest beach and road that leads to spacecraft. The bills proposed in the Legislative Texas will give Starbase forces to close the beach and the road on weekdays.
Representative of Texas State Janie Lopez, Yang Write a bill Related to Starbase, testifying during the April 14 Committee session that it would not bring Boca Chica Beach from the public.
“What he did was only, if people decided on May 3 that they wanted to make their own municipality, then they would decide who would be their government council and they would make a decision about closing based on what FAA needed.”
There are concrete concerns with the cost of SpaceX’s ambitions for those who call the area as a house – Medrano points to the state open beach law, which is guarantee free public access to the sandy beach.
“Give us the beach … I mean, what’s difficult about that?” he said. “Go to Mars, do your job, get your rocket and go. But let’s do our work too.”
ABC News reaches Spacex to comment, but hasn’t heard the news.
