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US billionaire businessman and pilot Jared Isaacman flies in formation aboard a fighter jet over the SpaceX sign, close to the Starship spacecraft, before his third test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on March 13, 2024. Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced it was eyeing March 14 as the earliest date for the next test launch of its giant Starship rocket, with which it hopes to one day colonize Mars. Two previous attempts have ended in spectacular explosions, though the company has adopted a rapid trial-and-error approach in order to accelerate development. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Elon Musk ’s SpaceX is convey its own prescribed party town .

occupant of an area around SpaceX ’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to integrate as a metropolis — also named Starbase . agree toresults posted onlineby the Cameron County Elections Department , there were 212 voter turnout in favour and only six against .

In a mail on his societal media site X , Musk wrote , Starbase , Texas “ Is now a existent metropolis ! ”

The new city ’s occupant are believed to mostly be SpaceX employees . On Saturday , they also vote to electthree current and former SpaceX employee — Bobby Peden , Jordan Buss , and Jenna Petrzelka — who run unopposed to serve up , respectively , as Starbase ’s mayor and two commissioners .

The Associated Press reports thatSpaceX has n’t share many specificsabout why it wanted to incorporate the arena . The fellowship suppose it already manages the road , utility , and “ the provisions of schooling and aesculapian aid , ” and it ’s also looking to stir authority from the county to the new city governance to shut the nearby Boca Chica beach and state common for launches .

Musk — who recently said he would bereducing his rolewith the Trump administration ’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency to a “ day or two ” per workweek — announced last year that he wasmoving SpaceX ’s headquartersfrom El Segundo , California , to the Starbase deftness in Texas .

At the time , Musk said he ’d “ had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building ” and that the “ final straw ” wasa California billthat prohibits schools from disclosing educatee ’ gender or gender identity without consent .

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After last dark ’s election , a new tenner account representing the townposted , “ Becoming a city will help us continue building the best community possible for the human race and women building the future of man ’s place in space . ”