Washington, USA

Earth seems too small for a billionaire president to coexist Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Who is fighting a fierce battle to become the next Emperor of Space.

Far from the space-perfect image, these two men’s duel doesn’t offer a few low hits.

Last Monday night Elon Musk He posted a particularly sexually suggestive tweet about Jeff Bezos’ project to develop a Moon landing gear for NASA, Which finally acquired SpaceX, the space division of Bezos himself, who is also the president of Tesla.

“It’s more than just a fight for space,” says Dan Ives, an analyst at the Wedbush Society. “It’s a battle of vanity.”

It is a “personal thing” between the two men, who launched their space partnership in the early 2000s, and are side by side in the great fortune arrangement.

Jeff Bezos, 57, Founder of Blue OriginHe is the richest man in the world, with 202 billion dollars, while … Elon Musk, 48, the weirdo boss of Tesla and SpaceX, Ranked third with $ 167 billion, according to Forbes.

Satellites

This rivalry, which has fueled the interest of the press for years, has crystallized today in two major projects to develop broadband Internet and connected things, and the project for manned flights to space, in the form of missions or tourism.

Space project development is being carried out by successful public contracts increasingly proposed by NASA and the US military, which are increasingly being used by the private sector, allowing these companies to obtain large budgets to develop programs for commercial purposes.

In this regard, Elon Musk has a clear advantage today.

SpaceX, with its Starlink network, has put hundreds of satellites into orbit using its own shuttle, while Jeff Bezos, who plans to invest $ 10 billion in the Kuiper satellite constellation, has not launched any satellites after suffering delays in its development. Its first missile.

Musk also achieved a psychological advantage over Bezos in this area of ​​”the cloud.”

Microsoft Azure section, As a remote computing specialist, he collaborated with SpaceX in late 2020 on a $ 10 billion project, following the Pentagon tender Azure won against Amazon, the giant founded by Jeff Bezos.

Xavier Pascoe, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, notes that SpaceX “has gained a certain degree of trust with NASA.”

Thus, the Elon Musk space association has been ensuring the regular supply of the International Space Station (ISS) since 2012, and bringing in astronauts from NASA and other agencies, in recent days for the last time.