Elon Musk is viewed as being ahead of competitors Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson in his quest to launch reusable rockets into outer space.
A New Shepherd ship, from the Blue Origin fleet, plunged into the sea after a fiery and aborted launch.Rand Simberg, space technology consultant, and author of “,” finds Musk’s desire to be particularly lofty. “Getting to Mars is only part of the problem. How do you live there? Nobody knows,” he said. “You need a lot of technology to not just survive but to thrive on another planet.”
Nonetheless, rocket-world insiders say, Musk seems to be winning the space race now — even after the launch failure.Bezos, after all, has yet to put a serious rocket to the test. And partly bankrupt Branson has become a non-entity in this leg of the competition. “Elon is much more driven than Jeff,” Simberg said. “Jeff has treated it as a hobby. Jeff was not in a hurry. He made the tortoise and hare analogy [about him and Musk]. Right now Elon is winning. The hare is way ahead and you won’t catch up.”” Eric Berger, “Bezos is putting $1 billion per year into his company. They are still working on New Glenn [a heavy-launch rocket]. It was supposed to launch in 2020. Now 2025 seems like a reasonable guess.
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