This is not even Musk’s first foray into company towns—a model that sees its roots in anti-labor organization and corporatist fascism. Farther north in Texas, near the outskirts of Austin, SpaceX operates Snailbrook, a city incorporated in 2021 and pitched as a sort of utopia for SpaceX and Boring Company employees.

Fact checked by Stella Osoba SpaceX, founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, has transformed aerospace by creating reusable rockets and dramatically reducing launch costs. From achieving the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station to developing the Starship,