{"id":11411,"date":"2021-05-24T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:56:37","slug":"musk-v-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/24\/musk-v-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk v. Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from WaPo via San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already was intense. Now it’s extending to the moon.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Christian Davenport<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON – In a flyer distributed on Capitol Hill last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX warned that legislation now being considered would reward “Jeff Bezos with a $10 billion sole-source hand-out” that would tie up NASA’s moon plans and hand “space leadership to China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bezos’ Blue Origin space company countered quickly and forcefully: “Lie.” “Lie.” “Lie,” it said of each of the allegations in SpaceX’s paper. And added: “What is Elon Musk afraid of … a little competition?” (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dueling documents are the latest point of tension in a long-simmering rivalry between the world’s two wealthiest men and billionaire “space barons” who have sparred on and off for years in their quest to privatize human space exploration. Musk and Bezos have fought over a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, battled over a patent over landing rockets and have argued over which of them actually pulled off that feat first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’ Amazon also are competing to put thousands of satellites in Earth orbit that could beam Internet signals to ground stations on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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