SpaceX's Starbase Texas: Starship Test Launch Site | International Space Station

SpaceX's Starbase Texas: Starship Test Launch Site | International Space Station

Expedition 74 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anil Menon shared this image from the International Space Station today: "Our view of Starbase from space! Here's to a successful launch."

Starbase is located in Cameron County, Texas, USA, near the mouth of the Rio Grande and adjacent to the Mexico-United States border. Starbase serves as the headquarters for SpaceX's Starship program, where the company builds, tests, and launches its spacecraft. Starbase was officially incorporated as a city in May 2025, with a near-unanimous vote by SpaceX employees. 

NASA plans to use a lunar lander version of Starship to deliver astronauts and cargo to the Moon during the Artemis IV mission and beyond through the Human Landing System (HLS) Program.

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Follow Expedition 74:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Sergei Mikaev, Anna Kikina, Pyotr Dubrov

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Chris Williams, Anil Menon

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/A. Menon

Date: July 24, 2026

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