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Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX ’s massive headquarters from its farsighted - time Hawthorne , California nursing home to the Lone Star State .
Musk later on said that he would move the home office of his social medium chopine X from San Francisco , California , to Austin , Texas — where his other company , Tesla , is headquarter . SpaceX will be headquartered in Starbase , where the party operates a massive spaceship manufacture and testing site .
“ Have had enough of dodging pack of tearing drug addicts just to get in and out of the building , ” heposted on X. Regarding the SpaceX move , Musk said “ the terminal chaff ” was the passage ofa California billsigned this week by Governor Gavin Newsom that prohibits schools from creating or enforcing policies that would postulate employee to disclose student ’ sex or grammatical gender identity operator to anyone without their consent — like parents . Musk suppose this law,“and the many others that precede it , ” attack “ both families and ship’s company . ”
Musk ’s proclamation has precedent . Tesla herald itwould move its headquartersfrom California to Austin , Texas back in 2021 — although the automaker still has a goodly footprint in the Golden state , including its gathering industrial plant in Fremont .
Musk has already tie his companies to the Lone Star State in other way , too : SpaceX officially changed its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texasin February , a move that was a reception to a opinion from a Delaware justice over Musk’s$56 billion compensation packagefor his part as primary executive director at Tesla . The same month , Musk also moved his brain implant company from Delaware to Nevada . Last calendar month , Tesla shareholders votednot only to re - approve the massive wage package but also to reincorporate the company from Delaware to Texas .
SpaceX strike into former Northrop Corporation industrial plant in 2007 , a composite that has grow to more than 1 million straight feet . southerly California has historically been a major aerospace hub , and that identity is true today , with companies ranging from monumental flower like Boeing to gobs of startup incur their domicile in Los Angeles County .
X , which was formerly Twitter , has had its headquarters in San Francisco after being founded there in 2006 .
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The larger branch of the proposed move for both companies are unclear . For SpaceX , Hawthorne is not just its military headquarters but also home to heavy production adeptness for its Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft , as well as charge control . But if SpaceX and X follow the route of Tesla , it ’s probable that much of the status quo will remain the same .
disregardless , Texas Governor Greg Abbott applauded Musk ’s statement , saying that it cements his State Department ’s status as “ the leader in place exploration . ”
