McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Voters are set to decide Saturday if the South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company should become an official city known as Starbase, fulfilling the billionaire’s dream of a galactic dateline for a program he hopes will someday blast astronauts to Mars.

Voters are deciding if the South Texas home of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will become an official city known as Starbase

A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was being approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at Spac

A major change is also visible in the Pentagon’s proposed budget, which proposes a remarkable 13 percent increase

SpaceX, already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon contractors, could win billions of dollars in new contracts if President Trump’s budget proposal is approved by Congress.

Space Budget Would Cancel NASA Rocket, Lunar Station By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's budget proposal seeks to axe key parts of NASA's moon program with a $6 billion cut for the space agency's 2026 budget,