Boca Chica AKA Starbase -- For The Archives -- March 4, 2021

For the archives. Some day this may be noteworthy. Right now it's great cocktail trivia.

Boca Chica, TX: the city does not have a public water system. Water is transported by truck from nearby Brownsville and stored in tanks at each home. 

Boca Chica, TX; future home for Mars missions. First Mars, then the "stars."

Boca Chica, TX: Musk wants to re-name it Starbase, TX.

From Bloomberg via Yahoo!Finance:

Renaming Boca Chica would further deepen Musk’s imprint on Texas. 

In addition to SpaceX’s activity, his automaker, Tesla Inc., is building a massive factory in East Austin for its forthcoming electric pickup truck. 

The private Musk Foundation has moved to Austin from California, and Musk himself has said he has relocated Texas, though he still spends time in the Golden State. [Though less than six months annually, I suppose.]

SpaceX also tests rockets in McGregor, Texas, which is near Waco. The Starship prototypes it’s developing in Boca Chica are one day meant to fly people to the moon and to Mars.

Separately, SpaceX posted engineering positions at Starlink for “a new, state of the art manufacturing facility” it’s building in Austin. Starlink is the company’s space-based Internet service, which is available in parts of Canada, the U.S. and U.K. Austin television station KXAN reported earlier on the new job postings.

So, we have, in Texas, SpaceX:

• Austin
• McGregor
• Boca Chica

From wiki:

In 2014, the village was chosen as the location for the construction of a control facility for the SpaceX South Texas launch site, while the launch site itself was slated to be built just 2 miles further east, adjacent to Boca Chica State Park on the Gulf Coast. 

In March 2021, Elon Musk announced plans to incorporate this village and surrounding land into a new polity to be called "Starbase", Texas.

 History:

Boca Chica Village, formerly Kennedy Shores, Kopernik Shores, is a small, unincorporated community in Cameron County, Texas, United States. 

It was formed in the late 1960s, and is still extant as of 2020, although the village proper has changed greatly since 2018 as industrial business enterprises came to occupy much of the land of the village. 

It lies 20 miles east of the City of Brownsville on the Boca Chica peninsula, and forms part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas. 

It is situated on Texas State Highway 4, immediately south of the South Bay lagoon, and is located about 2 mi northwest of the mouth of the Rio Grande.