The company town built America. Elon Musk is betting it can colonize Mars and save humanity, too. The latest step in Musk’s galactic quest is the incorporation of Starbase, Texas, home to his SpaceX rocket company and about 300 eligible voters,

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint out into the solar system — specifically to Mars, which is the most suitable and reachable target — so that we won't go extinct if something bad should happen to Earth.

Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring humanity's longterm survival.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shares his vision for life on Mars in an exclusive interview on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

Elon Musk revealed to Fox News' Jesse Watters that his desire to colonize Mars stems from wanting to get the entire human race a "life insurance" policy.

"One of the benefits of Mars is life insurance for life collectively," Musk said in an interview with Fox News. "So eventually all life on Earth will be destroyed by the Sun. The Sun is gradually expanding, so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilization because Earth will be incinerated."

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has touted the company's FSD (Full Self-Driving) technology ahead of next month's Robotaxi launch in Austin, Texas. What Happened: A video posted by a handle on X called Whole Mars Catalog showcased a Tesla vehicle navigating its way through traffic using Supervised FSD near Los Angeles's LAX airport on Saturday.

Sen. John Cornyn introduced the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources for Space Act, which would improve and modernize the Johnson Space Center.