On a coastal strip in southern Texas, right where the desert merges with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a vision of the future begins to materialize. In that corner, in a former locality called Boca Chica, SpaceX rockets rise into the sky as a symbol of an unprecedented technological revolution.
That place, where the entrepreneur Elon Musk develops his most ambitious space initiative, has been renamed Starbase. It is no longer just an operations base, but an officially recognized city by the state of Texas that adopts the name of the spaceport from which the Starship prototypes are launched.
Starbase was born as a logical extension of SpaceX's industrial and testing complex, but recently its legal status was completely transformed. In a recent vote, a small group of local residents decided to turn the area into a city.
Among those who took part in that resolution were SpaceX employees and people directly related to the company. As expected, the result granted the company an expanded level of authority. Meanwhile, Musk acquired an unprecedented influence in the urban configuration linked to the aerospace sector.
