Bezos optimistic about area: I see no threats from Musk | EUROtoday

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The magnate Jeff Bezos, founding father of Amazon and proprietor of the Washington Post, in an interview with the Reuters company, doesn’t take into account Elon Musk’s function harmful. The quantity one among SpaceX, the non-public area launch firm, won’t use his shut ties with the president-elect of the United States Donald Trump to weaken Bezos’ area firm, Blue Origin: the billionaire additionally added that he feels “very optimistic » regarding the space program of the new Trump administration.

Trust in Musk

«Elon has been very clear in saying that he is doing this for the public interest and not for his personal gain. And I take it at face value” mentioned Bezos, founding father of Blue Origin which rivals SpaceX within the area sector.

“There will be new services in space, which will increase the demand for large launch capabilities,” Bezos mentioned, in an interview with Bloomberg, on the eve of his firm’s first try to launch an orbital (across the Earth) rocket. «SpaceX might be very profitable. It will proceed to be very profitable. Blue Origin will succeed. And there’s a firm that hasn’t been based but, that hasn’t even been considered but, that too might be profitable.”

The launch of New Glenn

Speaking at the company’s rocket factory in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Bezos and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said they have high expectations that the New Glenn rocket will successfully reach orbit. The launch is scheduled for today at 1 am local time from Florida (Tuesday morning in Europe).