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colonize

[kol-uh-nahyz] / ˈkɒl əˌnaɪz /


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The company is expected to raise tens of billions of dollars in an offering to finance plans to launch data centers in space and colonize the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal

SpaceX is pivoting away from Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars and is instead focusing on something a little closer: settling the moon.

From MarketWatch

SpaceX is pivoting away from Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars and is instead focusing on something a little closer: settling the moon.

From MarketWatch

Puerto Rico was first colonized by the Spanish from 1493 until 1898, the year that the United States occupied the country as part of the Spanish-American War.

From Los Angeles Times

Mars, the planet he hopes to colonize, was mentioned just twice in a statement announcing that SpaceX had acquired xAI, while the moon got four mentions.

From MarketWatch