Musk vs Bezos: The Billionaire Space Race Explained | The Space Monopoly (Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- The two richest men in the world are engaged in a vicious space race that has implications for us all. For years, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have squabbled in the media over everything from who is the wealthiest to who did what first. But their rival space programmes, satellite launches and plans to colonise the planets have launched a new Space Age.
With his company, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos has thrown himself into space tourism and, in doing so, has revolutionised access to Space. He sees himself as the leader in this burgeoning ’New Space’ market. But he faces a determined opponent: Elon Musk, the eccentric head of SpaceX. Musk’s company has already disrupted the traditional aerospace launch industry and now he’s aiming for Mars.
When Musk first tried to buy a Russian rocket back in 2001, the chief engineer of the Russian Space Agency thought he was a joke. But that only made Musk more determined. Rather than buy rockets, he decided to build them and invested $100 million dollars, half his fortune at the time, in the creation of SpaceX. By 2008 SpaceX had a contract with NASA to supply flights to the International Space Station.
At around the same time Musk was founding SpaceX, Jeff Bezos was working on a secretive project to bring tourists to space. By 2015, he was ready to go public with a new rocket named the New Shepherd, the first reusable rocket to reach space. A year later, Musk announced an ambitious, widely ridiculed, plan to colonise Mars within 30 years. In the meantime, Bezos was working on plans to colonise the moon. When competition with China made returning to the moon a top priority for President Trump, there was one big question: which company would get the lucrative NASA moon contract?
Aside from colonising space and NASA contracts, the two billionaires are also racing to launch the most satellites. This allows them to deliver low latency broadband data services everywhere on the Earth… and to monopolise all future terrestrial communications. Jeff Bezos recently announced the launch of Kuiper, his network of more than 3,000 satellites. Jeff Bezos recently announced the launch of Kuiper, his network of more than 3,000 satellites.
So where will it end? How far will this intensive commercialisation of space go? We investigate.
This film was released in 2022 by Agnès Hubschman.
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There is no competition. Elon is so far ahead it's not even close.
I have to agree. Blue origin hasn’t even put a rocket in orbit yet. They are solidly sub orbital with their rocket and engines.
SpaceX has already massively disrupted the space industry with Falcon 9, Falcon heavy and Dragon (1 and 2). They also have Starlink and now the Starship and super Heavy program that is making progress at lightning speed, much faster than NASA and when it comes to blue Origins New Glen even NASA progress seems speedy.
I agree. Bezos is a propped up playboy who is looking for purpose and earned, real achievement in life. Won't happen. He has not done anything of lasting significance for humanity.
This is some weird Jeff Bezos fan.
Competition?????Jeff Bezos with that weird phallic "rocket"??? Yah right
A veiled hit piece on Musk, with emphasis on building Bezos up in the public eye.
Jeff Bezos sounds like Peewee Herman… lol
yeah, his laugh is so annoying ngl. I know its not a choice but still.
The most valuable documentary.
hey, this is an interesting story. I'm glad someone is doing this space race because governments sure as heck won't
Elon didn't crash taking a reporter for a ride in his car
Very good doc. Donny is heading behind bars, not beyond mars though
Great documentary. Thanks for sharing it...
Thats good we need them competing just like we did back in the day with the Russians it pushes u that much more !
I like Jeff a bit more after this doco..
Next time translate foreign languages into English. It's neither difficult nor expensive.
kam mbi 10. vende prona te mijat qe jan. nji trull. 5 ari ven. vlera. shtjes ashte. 10000 ero. per 6000 ero e kam shite. pse nuk kam punu nuk ashte vler paraja. vler ashte karakteri. paraja ashte asgje
#Remember #Anonymous #OpPayback ... it was Elon's paypal trying to starve wikileaks to death ... mastercard just joined forces but the idea came from paypal first
The 'critic' in this piece is full of shite. Musk is NOT an egotist. Bezos on the other hand is.
When you said as the narrator that Jeff Bezos considers himself the leader, I laughed out loud and I’m watching this by myself. If true, that’s a ridiculous statement and probably the best example of living in denial that I’ve ever heard. Jeff Bezos has a baby phallus rocket doesn’t put you in the space it just sort of lets you jump over the fence and take a quick look. Elon Musk the other hand is not trying to put six people in the space at a time for a quick hop over the top of the fence, but build a platform that can put, dozens of people on Mars and hundreds of tons of cargo into actual space. So if you’re just doing colorful commentary, you shouldn’t do that because people will think badly of Jeff Bezos. If you did not say that, then that’s a mean thing to do, but if he actually said he thinks he’s the leader then everyone should be laughing.
👇..!!
Lame sauce.