India, May 4 -- Elon Musk's dream of getting city status for his Spacex spaceport in the United States' South Texas became a reality on Saturday, with 97.7 percent of voters backing the project of turning Starbase into a new municipality.

The Tesla CEO rejoiced with the news and posted on X, "Starbase, Texas is now a real city!"

Starbase is the facility and launch site for Musk's rocket program, which is under contract with the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and, one day, to Mars as well.

The Texas base was launched in 2019, and the idea of Starbase was floated by Elon Musk in 2021, a report from The Associated Press said. Of the 283 eligible vot...