Electric cars, space rockets, electronic means of payment in the beginning and now the construction of cities. Elon Musk wants to create a city in the south-central state of Texas called Starbase. And for this he would have to change the one that already exists, Boca Chica.
This Tuesday, Musk tweeted, “Creating the city of Starbase, Texas” in what would be a clear reference to the renaming of the home of SpaceX’s development facility in Boca Chica Village along the Gulf of Mexico, very close to the southern border.
To soften, he went on with a more poetic line, “From there to Mars, and from there to the stars.”
Of course it is only a wish: it is not easy to change the name of a city, because of the built-in bureaucratic logic.
In fact, Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr issued a brief statement on Tuesday in response to SpaceX speculation. Treviño said SpaceX has officially approached Cameron County to transform Boca Chica Village into the city of Starbase, TexasAnd he warned that in order to move forward, Musk must follow all legal action “in accordance with applicable law” from the state.
“If SpaceX and Elon Musk are to take this path, they must comply with all statutes of the state of incorporation. Cameron County will deal with any appropriate petition in accordance with applicable law,” the judge clarified.
The Boca Grande judge’s response to Musk’s proposal
Boca Chica Village is an unincorporated community in Cameron County already famous for launching spacecraft prototypes, SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft. When the idea of Musk’s name change becomes reality, we can begin to read, “SpaceX launches Starship from Starbase.”
Everything indicates that Musk is taking it much more seriously than it sounds. And even consider doing something “much bigger than” the Boca Chica area.
Musk doesn’t just look up
The second richest man and tycoon in the world isn’t the only one with ambitions in space. In addition to his dispute with Jeff Bezos, now appeared the founder of Amazon and CEO of the aerospace company Blue Origin a Japanese businessman with a striking proposal.
Yusaku Maezawa, chosen as the world’s first tourist to orbit the moon, announced a campaign on Wednesday to find eight crew members with creative calling to join him on his journey, scheduled for 2023.
Maezawa, founder and CEO of Zozo (ZozoTown), Japan’s largest online fashion retailer, launched a recruitment campaign whose registration It will run until March 14 to invite anyone who sees themselves as artists to the project, called “dearMoon” (dear Moon).
The Japanese billionaire announced his space trip in 2018 and then indicated that he wanted to bring eight artists.
As he explained in a video posted on his social networks, Maezawa began to wonder what he meant by an artist and came to the conclusion that “it could be anyone doing creative activities anywhere in the world”.
The entrepreneur only needs two requirements to join what will be the first private space journey in history, in which it is expected in total between 10 and 12 people participate.
The first is “that it is people who feel that this journey into space can enhance their creativity to do something useful for society” and that, with this in mind, “that you think you can support the rest of the crewhe said in the video.
The space battle is open.
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