Elon Musk has doubled down on his commitment to Texas, pledging to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters there from its longtime base in Hawthorne, California.
Musk later said he would move the headquarters of his social media platform, “X,” from San Francisco, California, to Austin, Texas, where his other company, Tesla, is headquartered. SpaceX’s headquarters are at Starbase, where the company runs a large manufacturing and testing facility for Starship.
“I’m tired of having to avoid groups of violent drug addicts to get in and out of my building,” he says. Post to XRegarding SpaceX’s relocation, Musk said the “final push” was California bill The bill, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, prohibits schools from creating or enforcing policies that require employees to disclose a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity without the student’s consent, such as to a parent. Musk said of this rule: “And many others that preceded it” attack “both families and businesses.”
There is a precedent for Musk’s declaration. Tesla announced it Relocate the head office The company plans to move its manufacturing operations from California to Austin, Texas, in 2021, but still has a sizable presence in the state, including its assembly plant in Fremont.
Musk has already linked his company to the Lone Star State in other ways: SpaceX officially changed its incorporation state from Delaware to Texas. During February, This is Musk’s $56 billion compensation package In his role as Tesla’s CEO, Musk relocated his brain implant company from Delaware to Nevada. Tesla shareholders voted In addition to reauthorizing his huge compensation package, he is also considering reincorporating the company from Delaware to Texas.
SpaceX moved into a former Northrop facility in 2007, expanding the complex to more than 1 million square feet. Southern California has historically been a major aerospace center, and that identity remains true today, with a wide variety of companies based in Los Angeles County, from giants like Boeing to dozens of startups.
X, formerly Twitter, has been headquartered in San Francisco since it was founded there in 2006.
It’s unclear what the big impact of the proposed move would be for either company — for SpaceX, Hawthorne is not only its headquarters, but also the site of a large production facility and mission control for the Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft — but if SpaceX and Cosmos follow Tesla’s path, much of the status quo is likely to remain unchanged.
Either way, Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised Musk’s comments, saying they cemented the state’s status as a “leader in space exploration.”
