Elon Musk’s SpaceX is petitioning to incorporate its launch site into an official town called “Starbase, Texas," to serve as the company’s headquarters and “gateway to Mars."

ELON Musk revealed his elaborate plans to turn his company’s headquarters into its own Texas city that could be a gateway to Mars and set him back billions of dollars. The SpaceX boss, who has now

This is not even Musk’s first foray into company towns—a model that sees its roots in anti-labor organization and corporatist fascism. Farther north in Texas, near the outskirts of Austin, SpaceX operates Snailbrook, a city incorporated in 2021 and pitched as a sort of utopia for SpaceX and Boring Company employees.

The future of deep-space exploration is happening here in our backyard.”Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. But to Nansi Guevara, a visual artist in Brownsville,