Musk's massive rocket production and testing complex dominates the land here on the Texas ... historic buildings downtown.

Since 2019, the skies off the coasts of South Padre Island and Boca Chica ... of beach closures to what is going to be Starbase,” Rob Nixon, a local activist with the South Texas chapter ...

Boca Chica beach is near the Starbase facility in Brownsville, Texas, where the Texas constitution reserves beaches as public property. Elon Musk's company SpaceX seeks to control access to the beach.

Texas Representative Janie Lopez stood before the Committee on State Affairs on Monday and presented her bill giving SpaceX control of Boca Chica beach ...

A bill to give SpaceX more control over the public beach near its South Texas launch pad is one ... at a future Starbase city to decide when Boca Chica Beach is closed for rocket tests ...

Space-themed murals adorn the historic buildings downtown ... construction are situated near Boca Chica Beach on March 28, 2025. (Michael Gonzalez/The Texas Newsroom) In the shadow of SpaceX ...