((Hill– A community in Texas where a Launch site For Elon Musk’s Spacex Firmness Also, the city of Star is a base on Saturday.
Residents of Cameron County, who are Most of them are Spacex employeesVoice in favor of this step in a 212-6 voting. MUSK celebrated the vote in publication On the X social media platform, Starbase says, “It is now a real city.”
Only 143 votes were needed to secure the integration of the city, which is located on the edge of the southern American border and Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley.
“To be a city will help us to continue building the best possible society for men and women who build the future of humanity in space,” a page for the city to publish On x.
Remy Garza, director of the Cameron County Elections, said once the results of the elections are recognized by the provincial judge, Starbise will formally become a municipality in Texas.
The hill arrived at Spacex for comment.
The formation of the new city comes yet Declaration of musk last July He intends to transfer the Spacex and X headquarters from California after a draft law has been signed on sexually transformed students by the government. Gavin New No. (D) in the law.
The Spacex project started more than a decade ago when the company began buying lands in the region in 2012, and officially moved after two years when the legislature approved the bill, allowing the exception of the law of access to the public beach in the constitution, according to what he said Wall Street Journal.
Some population in the region initially opposed the efforts of the billionaire technical.
“We have invoked Spacex from the beginning,” Celia Johnson told the magazine at the time. “Spacex staff did what they wanted.”
Johnson claimed, in 2021, that there were many attempts by the company to buy its home and the group of others.
“We have a lot of land with no one around it, so if it explodes, this is great,” Musk said of the region during a 2018 press conference. CBS.
Three years later, a A trip test on March 30 Have you exploded near the Texas facility, and sent the debris. It took three months to clean. American fish and wildlife service has reported many problems other than compliance with the company to the Federal Aviation Administration, according to CBS.
Sophia Vento contributed to this report.