The Hilarious Feud Between Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos
Despite having so much wealth to spare, I think Jeff Bezos is a bit late to the space race, whereas Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been making great strides despite having initial setbacks from the startup days.
Long was gone those days, when we used to hear, “slow and steady wins the race (i.e., Jeff Bezos).” The new slogan should be, “fast and furious wins the race (i.e., Elon Musk).” In the story of a rabbit (Musk) and the tortoise (Bezos), if the rabbit never takes success for granted, then he is unstoppable.
A while back, Jeff Bezos announced his mission for Moon 2024 lander, perhaps because Elon Musk wants to go to Mars by that date at the earliest. He wants to revisit the moon while Musk can be the guineapig of Mars Exploration; perhaps that was Bezos’ idea.
But soon after, Elon Musk mocked that Blue Moon mission naming it as “Blue Balls.”
Next, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin teamed up with Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and MIT’s Draper to create an old boy’s space club to monopolize the moon mission contract from NASA. But alas! SpaceX won that moon landing contract. Jeff Bezos protested it, but it seems like NASA…
