When the 2 people who take turns being the richest person on Earth engage in trash talking over space commerce that must mean that the potential for the expanding utilization of space is now very real. Otherwise why would they be arguing about it like this? @ElonMusk @JeffBezos pic.twitter.com/qND2iagueJ
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) September 10, 2021
– Elon Musk is dominating the space race. Jeff Bezos is trying to fight back., Washington Post
– Amazon Takes a Swipe at Musk as Satellite Feud Escalates, Bloomberg
– Elon Musk goads Jeff Bezos on Twitter as their prolonged space spat escalates, Geekwire
Agree wholeheartedly! Granted the infighting is causing some short term issues, but I love that these guys are so passionate about it. For years so many people have been saying (and rightly so) “it’s not government’s job to be in the space business, private enterprise needs to take over.” You may not like what this or that company is doing with their money in space right now, but I, for one, love this private push into space and think that whatever route they take, it will get us into space. Certainly quicker than letting the government handle it.
But not Ma Bell, Ho-Jo, or PanAm – The movie was prescient in some ways, and not so much in others.
Surely enormous prideful egos have nothing to do with it.