SpaceX to move from Hawthorne to Texas, Elon Musk announces – Daily Breeze

Hawthorne-based SpaceX, the massive aerospace company known for its innovative rockets and space capsules — with billions of dollars in federal government contracts — will move its headquarters from California to Texas, founder Elon Musk announced on X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday (July 16).

While the precise impact is not immediately known, the relocation will certainly be a major blow to the South Bay and the regional economy, likely resulting in significant job losses.

Musk, who also announced that X would be moving from San Francisco to Austin, said a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom banning school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”

“I made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.

Tesla, of which Musk is CEO, moved its headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin in 2021.

Musk also said he had moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no personal income tax.

Musk has also become increasingly involved in politics in recent months, throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign just minutes after Trump was ejected from the stage at his rally in Pennsylvania.

Musk has resisted making major political donations in the past, and has even gone so far as to say he tries to stay away from politics, despite his conservative rhetoric on immigration and cultural issues.

The Associated Press and The New York Times contributed to this report.

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