2024-11-14T17:22:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150253542/elon-musk-floats-idea-of-new-starbase-city-in-texas Alexander Walter 2021-03-05T15:37:00-05:00 >2021-03-12T18:25:49-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/23/2358a8abeb9e5a448c9fa7d8181cf0bf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Musk [...] said on Tuesday he&rsquo;s aiming to create a city called &ldquo;Starbase&rdquo; in Texas, teasing a new idea on Twitter as his space company expands its footprint elsewhere in the state. That footprint, first planted in the Lone Star state over a decade ago, is growing rapidly under Musk&rsquo;s dogged effort to build a &ldquo;gateway to Mars.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><p>Nearly <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/105791849/musk-will-build-spacex-launchpad-in-texas" target="_blank">a decade after launching</a> the world's first commercial launchpad in Boca Chica near Brownsville, South Texas, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/484003/spacex" target="_blank">SpaceX</a>/<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/195944/tesla" target="_blank">Tesla</a>/<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/320195/hyperloop" target="_blank">Hyperloop</a>/<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/877400/the-boring-company" target="_blank">Boring Company</a> entrepreneur <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/154376/elon-musk" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a> has shared a grand, and fashionably vague, announcement of a new urban stepping stone for his ambitious <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150013933/elon-musk-unveils-his-plan-to-colonize-mars-with-a-million-humans" target="_blank">Mars colonization</a> endeavor.<br></p> From thence to Mars,<br>And hence the Stars.<br>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1366860749503557636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">March 2, 2021</a>