colonizing

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Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of colonizing Mars, has a firm grip on the leadership and ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

Musk has major aspirations for SpaceX, from developing a 1 million-satellite constellation around the Earth to colonizing the moon and Mars.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

Thus Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans’ colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans’ colonizing Europe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond