{"id":124429,"date":"2024-11-11T01:41:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T18:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124429"},"modified":"2024-11-11T01:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T18:41:48","slug":"elon-musk-has-crushed-jeff-bezos-space-dreams-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124429","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Has Crushed Jeff Bezos\u2019 Space Dreams For 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, Nov. 4, Tesla stock traded at $243. Yesterday it closed at $321. <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s election increased its value by a third in a week, adding $245 billion to its market capitalization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> made nearly $50bn from that leap, as he owns a fifth of Tesla\u2019s stock. That\u2019s about twice as much as Musk paid to buy Twitter\u2014now X\u2014two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s a sign of the value financial markets have assigned to proximity to Trump, whom Musk joined on the phone call with Ukrainian president <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/volodymyr-zelensky\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s also the kind of proximity that journalists at <i>The Washington Post<\/i> fear <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/jeff-bezos\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/jeff-bezos\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> sought when he held back the paper\u2019s editorial board from endorsing <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/kamala-harris\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/kamala-harris\/\">Kamala Harris<\/a> prior to the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That decision\u2014which cost <i>The Post<\/i> at least 250,000 in subscribers and tens of millions in revenue\u2014has thrown light on the role of Blue Origin, the long-faltering rocket company in Bezos\u2019 sprawling empire. It has also emphasized his decades-long struggle to compete in space with Musk\u2019s SpaceX, the company Bezos has had to watch succeed in the wake of Blue Origin\u2019s methodical inaction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEvery day SpaceX is accelerating further away from Blue Origin,\u201d said Eric Berger, a long-time chronicler of the new space race between Musk and Bezos, and the author of <i>Reentry<\/i>. \u201cThey\u2019re still trying to do things SpaceX did in 2010.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Musk-Bezos rivalry is one of the longest running in tech. It has been pockmarked with potshots. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. Musk followed with SpaceX in 2002. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pair met in 2004 for a dinner Musk later recalled in withering terms. \u201cWe talked about rocket architectures,\u201d he told <i>Washington Post<\/i> journalist Christian Davenport. Musk thought Bezos was pursuing \u201cthe wrong evolutionary path,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI actually did my best to give good advice, which he largely ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI asked Elon if he thought Bezos was a good engineer a few years ago,\u201d Berger added. \u201cHe said no.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Musk and Bezos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=800&amp;height=800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=274&amp;height=274 274w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=400&amp;height=400 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=768&amp;height=768 768w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=1024&amp;height=1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/NTISLQMZQZGGTJJFHDES2X7GDQ.jpg?auth=ed69ecc0e51962a2951e88688a030545e68cdbaa3c1c34e8083f3b7503468d26&amp;width=1440&amp;height=1440 1440w\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Musk and Bezos meet in 2008. Their earlier dinner dates to 2004. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">&#8211; <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bezos was still preoccupied with running Amazon in 2004. Blue Origin was a pet project he funded out of a reverence for a long-gone space age he hoped to revive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SpaceX wasn\u2019t a side project for Musk. It was his life\u2019s mission. He had made $200 million from selling his share of PayPal in 2002. He put half of it into SpaceX: enough money to fund a handful of rocket launches. One would have to succeed before the company ran out his cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If one did, SpaceX stood to win contracts from NASA to deliver payloads into space\u2014contracts that could fund the company as it developed more powerful rockets, new spacecrafts and, in time, a system of satellites (Starlink) that is now the envy of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey started almost at the same time, and just had these totally different trajectories,\u201d said Ashlee Vance, another authority on space and the author of a biography on Musk, of the two companies. \u201cBlue Origin has this motto: \u2018step-by-step, ferociously.\u2019 They\u2019ve been missing the \u2018ferociously\u2019 part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While leading Amazon, Bezos famously railed against the company adopting a \u201cDay Two\u201d mindset. It\u2019s always Day One at Amazon, Bezos decreed, meaning the company\u2014now worth $2.2 trillion\u2014had to always act like a start-up, never transition into maximizing margins at the expense of customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Blue Origin hasn\u2019t had the luxury of making that choice. It is, in many ways, still stuck on Day Zero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bezos has taken on greater oversight of Blue Origin since ceding day-to-day control of Amazon in 2021\u2014it\u2019s one of the main reasons he stepped away from the megalith he built. He has since said he wants Blue Origin to become \u201cthe world\u2019s most decisive company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGood luck,\u201d said Berger, reflecting on that aim. \u201cSpaceX <i>is <\/i>the world\u2019s most decisive company because Elon has a meeting and makes a decision and that\u2019s it. Elon has had a lot more experience, and his intuition has been right on a lot of the big issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Musk realized perhaps before anyone else\u2014before Bezos, NASA, the Russians, the Europeans, the Chinese\u2014that rockets had to become reusable to make space flight commercially viable. That idea was dismissed as untenable by aerospace experts for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now everyone is trying to build a reusable rocket of their own, as SpaceX has with Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Spaceship, all of which can re-enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, each of them more powerful than the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bezos has yet to launch his company\u2019s orbital rocket, New Glenn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is a decade behind schedule, a fact Musk anticipated in relish in 2013 when he, not Bezos, was given the lease to launchpad 39A at NASA\u2019s Cape Canaveral base in Florida\u2014the spot from which Apollo 11 flew to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bezos tried to secure it for Blue Origin, but even then SpaceX was the more qualified bidder. Musk promised at the time to \u201cgladly accommodate (Blue Origin\u2019s) needs\u201d if Bezos\u2019 company did \u201csomehow show up in the next five years with a vehicle qualified to NASA\u2019s human rating standards that can dock with the space station, which is what Pad 39A is meant to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFrankly,\u201d he added, with customary bite, \u201cI think we are more likely to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">New Glenn has not flown since, as Berger points out in <i>Reentry<\/i>. SpaceX has, in that time, had 175 launches and counting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJeff is evidently a brilliant guy\u2014he can clearly talk about this stuff at depth,\u201d Ashlee Vance told the Daily Beast, but \u201cElon\u2019s there all the time in the factory, whereas Jeff would periodically check in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vance described SpaceX\u2019s success as \u201chard to put into words\u2026 This is a company that didn\u2019t exist 20 years ago, and they are now completely lapping the entire world on every front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That fact may not be apparent to the public at large. Bezos has had one notable success, flying in 2021 on Blue Origin\u2019s suborbital New Shepard spacecraft as it crossed the 62-mile K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line\u2014the recognized boundary of space\u2014before returning to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">(Musk has not crewed one of his company\u2019s flights. He is waiting to fly to Mars.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The scale of Musk\u2019s success in space is often ignored by critics concerned by his controversial and egocentric management of X, the platform on which most journalists still spend their lives. Most of the social media company\u2019s value has been wiped out since he bought it, to the chagrin of the investors and banks that put in $18 billion of the $44 billion purchase price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But his standing is unimpeachable in the new space race. The rocket company Bezos wants to run already exists. 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