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

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 • Feb. 9, 2026

The commands of the monarchs and merchants who organized colonizing fleets were conveyed in writing.

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