Elon Musk shared a sweet family photo of him with wife Grimes, 32, and their baby son X Æ A-Xii, aged 10 months, on Twitter on Monday, captioning the post: "Starbase, Texas."
The three are gazing at a beautiful bouquet, both parents sporting stylish sunglasses as Canadian singer Grimes also dons a single bloom in her hair.
Starbase, which the billionaire, 49, refers to, is something he mentioned in a Twitter thread last Wednesday. In it, he said he's "creating the city of Starbase", near Boca Chica Village in Cameron County, Texas.
This is where he also has a private launch site and rocket production centre for his aerospace manufacturing company SpaceX.
"From thence to Mars, and hence to stars," he wrote poetically in the thread.
He also said he sees Starbase as encompassing the town, as well as a "much larger" area.
More details are yet to be released by Musk, but it seems he might actually be looking to change the name of Boca Chica altogether, as Bloomberg reports a SpaceX representative made a "casual inquiry" recently about what was required to rename the community the City of Starbase, according to Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino.
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Mr Musk unveils a new all-wheel-drive version of the Model S car in Hawthorne, California, in 2014. Reuters -
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Mr Musk with music producer Quincy Jones. AFP -
The wealthiest person in the world with a worth of $274.3 billion, Mr Musk was named 'Person of the Year' by 'Time' magazine in 2021. Getty Images -
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Then US president Barack Obama speaks to Mr Musk on a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2010. Reuters -
Mr Musk during a television interview after Tesla's initial public offering at the Nasdaq market in New York, in 2010. Reuters -
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With Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe after a test drive of the Tesla Model S P85D in Palo Alto, California, in 2015. Reuters -
Mr Musk during the 67th International Astronautics Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2016. EPA -
From left: SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk, Corning chief executive Wendell Weeks, then US president Donald Trump and Johnson & Johnson chief executive Alex Gorsky during a meeting at the White House. AFP -
Mr Musk and former wife Grimes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in 2018. AFP -
Mr Musk leaves a court in New York City, in 2019, after a hearing in a lawsuit brought against him by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Getty Images -
A prototype of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft is seen before Mr Musk gives an update on the company's Mars rocket Starship in Boca Chica, Texas, in 2019. Reuters -
Mr Musk at the construction site of the Tesla Gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, last year. EPA -
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Mikey Day as a lawyer, Cecily Strong as a judge, and host Elon Musk as Wario during the "Wario" sketch on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live', in May. Getty Images -
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Boca Chica Village was founded as Kennedy Shores in 1967 and was renamed Kopernik Shores in 1975.
There have been numerous reports over the past few years about Musk trying to buy out the village's residents, of which there are very few, although several are said to have refused the offer as it was "insultingly low", according to Vice.
They remained in the town as of October 2020, while others took the money and left early in the year.
In August, SpaceX posted a job advertisement for a "resort development manager", to develop the area "into a 21st-century spaceport" and the company's first resort.
Trevino told Bloomberg, however, that sending a tweet about his plans was not enough. "They have a lot of hoops and hurdles to go through before they can make it so."
It seems Texas will be a major focus of Musk's future plans. Tesla is also building a factory in East Austin, while the private Musk Foundation has moved to Austin from California, and the businessman has said he has relocated to the Lone Star State.
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