Last week a SpaceX executive made a "best and final" purchase offer, residents say. The executive told some "it's not safe" and "too dangerous" to live there anymore.
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Elon Musk wants a rocket resort. A few scrappy homeowners stand in his way.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is developing its Starship rocket at a launch site in a remote wildlife-rich area at the southeastern tip of Texas, and took root next to a hamlet of retiree-age homeowners called Boca Chica Village in 2014. Since SpaceX first began offering homeowners buyouts in 2019, most residents have sold to the company. Last week SpaceX made its "best and final" purchase offer. But some residents have vowed not to sell to SpaceX. 🚀
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Elon Musk's Quest for Boca Chica
SpaceX is developing a rocket system called Starship at the southeastern tip of Texas, and built its spaceport around a neighborhood of a few dozen houses called Boca Chica Village. SpaceX has offered to buy out residents who live there.
What is Musk planning for the land?
The rocket company plans to build a "SpaceX Village" adjacent to its Starship rocket-development and launch site. SpaceX Village is apparently being planned right on top of Boca Chica Village: a preexisting, though shrinking, community of retiree-age residents.
The goal of the community is to make Boca Chica, Texas — where SpaceX's private spaceport with eyes on Mars is coming together — "an epic place to live and work."
Although SpaceX earned permission to develop Boca Chica into a rocket facility in 2014, activity at the site didn't accelerate until mid-2018.
Spacex's latest space ventures
Elon Musk has big plans for outer space — partnering with NASA to send more astronauts on missions, using satellites to provide the world with internet, and putting people on Mars.
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