How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city | Anywhere but Washington

The world’s richest person has placed his mission to Mars in a low-income county near the US-Mexico border.

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As a small cluster of voters connected to SpaceX decide to incorporate their own ‘Starbase city', Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet environmental opponents, space enthusiasts and residents who decry the gentrification Musk's expansion has brought

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