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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #1036 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY April 14, 2026: ‘STARBASE: Lone Star States Newest City’ Photography by ZUMA Partner newspaper The San Antonio Exoress-News award winning photo-journalist’s: Starbase is a Texas city that serves as SpaceX’s headquarters and launch site for its Starship program. Home to nearly 500 people, mostly SpaceX employees, the city plans major expansions but faces criticism over environmental impacts and corporate control of local governance. The 1.5-square-mile municipality includes a rocket launch site, manufacturing facilities and homes for SpaceX employees. Starbase officially became a city in May 2025. Now, plans are underway to expand it into a full-fledged company town, with additional housing, shops and restaurants to accommodate more workers. As the company prepares to go public later this year, reportedly valued at $1.5 trillion, SpaceX expects to raise $50 billion in its initial public offering, which would be the largest ever. However SpaceX also is facing more pressure to meet timelines under NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon, but is running years behind schedule. Welcome to ‘STARBASE: Lone Star States Newest City’

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January 17, 2026, Hong Kong, China: Singapore-born Chinese conductor Kahchun Wong ( 39 ) gestures with the players of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra after the performance of Beethoven Fourth Symphony at the Culture Centre Concert Hall. Kahchun WONG, a young generation of Asian conductor internationally acclaimed for his electrifying stage presence is now in Hong Kong to perform Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Italian and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

April 14, 2026, Barcelona, Spain, Spain: Otto VIRTANEN of Finland and Carlos ALCARAZ of Spain during the second day of Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2026, 73th Trofeo Conde de Godo, ATP 500 tennis tournament at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona on April 14, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Credit Image: © Matthieu Mirville/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Apr. 11, 2026: A SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage reusable booster is seen as it lands back at the launch pad after launching Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 7:41 a.m. EDT. The unscrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft will deliver more than 11,000 pounds of research equipment, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station.

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Top Left: April 12, 2026, Sydney, NSW, Australia: GOUT GOUT of Queensland poses after winning the men’s 200m final in 19.67 seconds at the 2026 Australian Athletics Championships. (Credit Image: © Stephane Thomas/ZUMA Press Wire)

Main: April 12, 2026, Sydney, Nsw, Australia: GOUT GOUT of Queensland competes in heat one of the men’s 200m at the 2026 Australian Athletics Championships. (Credit Image: © Stephane Thomas/ZUMA Press Wire)

Bottom Left: April 12, 2026, Sydney, Nsw, Australia: GOUT GOUT of Queensland competes in the men’s 200m final at the 2026 Australian Athletics Championships. (Credit Image: © Stephane Thomas/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

January 2, 2025, Rafah, Gaza Strip: YOUNG AND STARVING: Young children crying and fighting for position as people gather to receive meals from the Rafah charitable kitchen (Tekias) as Palestinians face famine amid a severe shortage of flour, aid, and the ongoing closure of crossings under the Gaza siege. There are six tekias in southern Gaza, three in Rafah, two in Khan Younis and one in the middle area, all in locations where displaced families are taking shelter. Each kitchen is staffed with multiple chefs and helpers who make scores of large pots of filling, hot meals. Each pot can make enough food to serve 300. People come to tekias with receptacles, which volunteers fill with food, altogether serving between 50,000 and 70,000 people daily. (Credit Image: © Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa via ZUMA Press)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press