Home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX could become an official Texas city called Starbase

Elon Musk has for years made Texas a business home and playground, launching rockets, building cars, and dreaming about creating a utopian enclave for his workers on the rural outskirts of the state capital. Now, a new Musk project is on the brink of victory: an election Saturday to officially turn a small patch of coastal South Texas – home to his rocket company SpaceX – into a city known as Starbase.

If Musk prevails – which appears likely, since the small number of residents eligible to vote include his employees – it will be a victory for the…