SpaceX shoots for Mars, with Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Racing to bring humanity closer to be a multi-planetary species. Back here on Earth, the head of the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government of President Donald Trump (DOGE) hopes that his business will have the chance to create a government in Texas.
Starbase is the place where SpaceX is looking for, launches and tests rockets and it could soon become the new city in America.
However, it would not be your typical city; It would be a business community now filled with employees mainly SpaceX.
It is less than two miles squares and it makes a hold to a natural reserve in Texas State and Boca Chica beach along the bank of the Gulf.
A panel for Starbase highlights SpaceX’s ambition to reach Mars.
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Last year, a petition was subjected to the state of Texas by SpaceX to create a new city; The new municipality would work as its own city with the ability to create its own fire service and emergency services, even as a school district.
A few hundred current registered residents, including Musk himself who is registered to vote in an address in the proposed city, is now voting for the appointment-which was formerly a small sleeping beach community on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas, could be officially known as Starbase City.
René Medrano’s house, resident of Brownsville, is 20 miles from the coast. After going to Boca Chica beach when he was a child and brought his own family once he has aged, Medrano told ABC News that it was in his blood.
“It was called a poor man’s beach because you had nothing to pay to go to the beach other than simply get into your car, get into your truck, collect the neighbors, collect the cousins, collect aunts and uncles and let’s have fun,” he said. “And see now like that … it’s just, discouraging is what it is.”
SpaceX had its first launch of starship in April 2023; To go out successfully and clean the launch pad, then lose control of its super heavy booster engines. The company said that it had launched the starship flight termination system after boosters do not separate and turned its planned trajectory.
The Brownsville resident, René Medrano, uses Bota China throughout his life, and is concerned that SpaceX limits his ability to continue to go.
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However, the company made the basics of something much larger over ten years ago. Medrano recalled a SpaceX representative going to his wife’s school to present a “small test site” in 2014, but told that the person had told the inhabitants that the beach would remain accessible.
“Who would never think they wanted to go on March 10 years later?” He said. “I mean, it was never in the formula. You know?”
Since 2014, SpaceX has had eight Boca Chica launches with amazing success. Now, the company asks the FAA to grant permits that would allow SpaceX to launch up to 25 times a year.
“You have many visitors who go to the island to see the rocket launches. But then these people leave,” said Medrano. “We see the explosions of spacecraft. We see the environments, you know, with all the launches of rockets torn in this area. We see Boca Chica Beach as we knew – we no longer know this place.”
Bekah Hinojosa, who heads a local environmental group, told ABC News that SpaceX had disrupted daily life in the region.
“Rocket launches are dangerous. They are shaking our houses. SpaceX has been illegally caught to pour polluted water on Boca Chica beach, in our ecosystems,” she said. “The rent increases. And everything is associated, you know, SpaceX entering this area and colonizing the region.”
The SpaceX Spaceport is next to Bota Chica beach, which makes residents concerned about access to the sandy shore.
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If this area becomes its own municipality, SpaceX wants control of the neighboring beach and road that lead to Spaceport. The bills proposed to the Texas Legislative Assembly would give Starbase the power to close the beaches and roads during the week.
The representative of the State of Texas Janie Lopez, who the author of an invoice Linked to Starbase, testified during an audience of the April 14 Committee that she will not move away from Boca Chica’s beach of the public.
“All he does is that, if people decide on May 3 that they want to make their own municipality, then they will decide who will be their board of directors and that they will make decisions on the closures according to what the FAA requires.”
There is a real concern at the price of spacex ambitions for those who call the region at home – Medrano stressed the law on open beaches, which guarantees free public access to its sandy shores.
“Give us the beach … I mean, what is so difficult about it?” He said. “Go to Mars, do your thing, take your rockets and go. But let us do our thing too.”
ABC News contacted SpaceX to comment, but has not heard.
