Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he doesn’t think SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will use his close relationship with US President-elect Donald Trump to undercut his space company Blue Origin, adding 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 good and not for personal gain. And I appreciate that,” said Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, a rival to SpaceX in the space industry. I see.” Reuters In an interview on Sunday
Spoke with Jeff Bezos. Reuters in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where they will watch the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, a 30-story-tall rocket that will end SpaceX’s market dominance and Blue Origin’s long-delayed entry into the satellite launch business. will start.
Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump, has the president-elect’s ear on space matters.
Last month, he said the US should send missions straight to Mars instead of the Moon, fueling industry fears of a major overhaul of NASA’s space exploration program.
When asked if he was concerned about changes to NASA’s moon program, Bezos said, “My own opinion is that we should do both — we need to go to the moon and we should go to Mars. ”
“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 as president, Trump is expected to make major changes to NASA’s moon program and focus heavily on sending missions to Mars.
Amazon has donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund and will stream the event on its Prime Video service. Amazon founder and executive chairman Bezos met with Trump but told Reuters “We haven’t really talked about the place.”
Blue Origin, founded by Bezos in 2000, has a $3 billion contract with NASA to land humans on the moon after SpaceX’s Starship missions later this decade, Musk’s fully reusable A rocket is in development designed to get both humans and equipment to and from the Moon. Mars