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By Joey Roulette
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos stated he doesn’t assume SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will use his shut ties with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to undercut his house firm Blue Origin, including he feels “very optimistic” concerning the incoming administration’s house agenda.
“Elon has been very clear that he is doing this for the general public curiosity and never for his private acquire. And I take him at face worth,” Bezos, founding father of Blue Origin which rivals SpaceX within the house business, instructed Reuters in an interview on Sunday.
Bezos spoke with Reuters in Cape Canaveral, Florida the place he’ll watch the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, a 30 story-tall rocket that’s anticipated to chip away at SpaceX’s market dominance and kick begin Blue Origin’s long-delayed entrance within the satellite tv for pc launch enterprise.
Musk, who spent greater than 1 / 4 billion {dollars} to assist elect Trump, has had the president-elect’s ear on house issues.
Final month he stated the U.S. ought to ship missions straight to Mars as an alternative of going to the moon first, fueling business considerations of a significant shakeup to NASA’s house exploration program.
“My very own opinion is that we must always do each – we have to go to the moon and we must always go to Mars,” Bezos stated, when requested if he was involved about modifications to NASA’s moon program.
“What we should not do is begin and cease issues. We must always proceed with the lunar program for positive,” Bezos stated.
Trump in his second time period as president is anticipated to make sweeping modifications to NASA’s moon program and focus closely on sending missions to Mars.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and can stream the occasion on its Prime Video service. Bezos, Amazon’s founder and govt chairman, has met with Trump however instructed Reuters “we actually have not talked about house.”
Blue Origin, based by Bezos in 2000, has a $3 billion contract with NASA to land people on the moon later this decade after missions by SpaceX’s Starship, Musk’s absolutely reusable rocket in improvement that’s designed to place people and cargo on each the moon and Mars.
