Elon Musk’s SpaceX vs Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin: Which Space Project Will Dominate the Cosmos?
The space race, once a competition between rival countries, has become a battle of the billionaires. Among them are Mr. Tesla, Elon Musk, who seeks to colonize Mars with his SpaceX venture, and Mr. Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who charts a future with his rocket manufacturer, Blue Origin, where millions of humans are both living and working in space. Both are competing to develop the all-important lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis mission in 2024. So how do these two galactic egos stack up?
OWNER’S NET WORTH $69.1 billion | OWNER’S NET WORTH $188 billion |
HEADQUARTERED IN Hawthorne, Calif. | HEADQUARTERED IN Kent, Wash. |
FOUNDING YEAR 2002 | FOUNDING YEAR 2000 |
BACKERS | BACKERS NASA |
NEXT BIG THING The Starship rocket, which will launch as
| NEXT BIG THING Successfully launching a crewed mission. |
INSPIRED BY The Foundation book series by Isaac Asimov. | INSPIRED BY The biopic October Sky. |
SENT HUMANS TO SPACE? Yes, two. | SENT HUMANS TO SPACE? Nope. |
MOST IMPRESSIVE MEMBER Falcon 9, which is taller than the Leaning | MOST IMPRESSIVE MEMBER New Glenn, which is a bit taller than the Statue of |
CREWED SHIP Crew Dragon | CREWED SHIP New Shepard |
ESTIMATED TICKET PRICE $500,000 for a trip to Mars. | ESTIMATED TICKET PRICE Between $200,000 and $300,000 for a suborbital cruise. |
FRIENDLY RIVALRY When Bezos tweeted a video of a “rare” reused rocket from Blue Origin, Musk was quick to point out that the SpaceX | FRIENDLY RIVALRY After SpaceX launched a rocket into space and brought the booster back to Earth, Bezos tweeted, |
TWITTER FOLLOWERS 12.1 million | TWITTER FOLLOWERS 235,000 |
COMIC-BOOK COMPARISON Tony Stark | COMIC-BOOK COMPARISON Lex Luthor |
SIR RICHARD BRANSON SAYS “Elon is absolutely fixated on going to Mars.” | SIR RICHARD BRANSON SAYS “We’re both neck and neck as to who will put people |
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