Bezos sees no threat to the Musk-Trump relationship in the space race

Jeff Bezos In an interview with Reuters on Sunday, Day said he doesn’t understand the SpaceX CEO. Elon Musk Will use his close relationship with the US president-elect. Donald Trump To undercut his space company Blue Origin, he added that he feels “very optimistic” about the incoming administration’s space agenda.

“Elon has been very clear that he’s doing this for the public interest and not for his own personal gain. And I appreciate that,” said Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, a rival to SpaceX in the space industry.

Bezos is in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, a 30-story-tall rocket that will usher in SpaceX’s market dominance and Blue Origin’s long-delayed entry into the satellite launch business. Hope to do. .

Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected, has the president-elect’s ear on space issues and said last month that the U.S. should go straight to Mars instead of going to the moon first. shipments, which should raise industrial concerns. A major change in NASA’s space exploration program.

“My own opinion is that we should do both — we should go to the moon and we should go to Mars,” Bezos said when asked if he was concerned about changes to NASA’s moon program.

“What we shouldn’t be doing is starting and stopping things. We should definitely keep the lunar program going,” Bezos said.

In his second term, Trump is expected to make major changes to NASA’s moon program and focus heavily on sending missions to Mars.