The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos already was intense. Now it’s extending to the moon., Washington Post “In a flier 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.” Bezos’s Blue Origin space company countered quickly and forcefully. “Lie.” […]

Sound On: FB Trump Ban, GOP Division, SpaceX (Podcast), Bloomberg “Host Jack Fitzpatrick spoke to Boyd Matheson, former Chief of Staff for Senator Mike Lee, and Keith Cowing, astrobiologist and editor of the blog SpaceRef.” Keith’s note: This aired on Wednesday. My piece starts at 25:30

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Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan, The Atlantic “Bezos is unabashed in his fanaticism for Star Trek and its many spin-offs. He has a holding company called Zefram, which honors the character who invented warp drive. He persuaded the makers of the film Star Trek Beyond to give him a cameo as a Starfleet official. He named his dog Kamala, after a woman who appears in an episode as Picard’s “perfect” but […]

This cryptic tweet from @BlueOrigin means something. This is Shackleton's ship "Endurance" from the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17. Either Jeff Bezos found it, is looking for it, or he's going to do something at the lunar south pole. Thoughts? #Antarctica #moon2024 https://t.co/4VPrhHH0kJ — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) April 26, 2019

The rarest of beasts – a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, can look easy. Check out video: https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3 — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 24, 2015 Jeff maybe unaware SpaceX suborbital VTOL flight began 2013. Orbital water landing 2014. Orbital land landing next. https://t.co/S6WMRnEFY5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015 There’s a major difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin that makes them incomparable, Business Insider “We […]