The two richest men in the world are engaged in a vicious space race that has implications for us all. For years, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have squabbled in the media over everything from who is the wealthiest to who did what first. But their rival space programmes, satellite launches and plans to colonise the planets have launched a new Space Age.
With his company, Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos has thrown himself into space tourism and, in doing so, has revolutionised access to Space. He sees himself as the leader in this burgeoning ’New Space’ market. But he faces a determined opponent: Elon Musk, the eccentric head of SpaceX. Musk’s company has already disrupted the traditional aerospace launch industry and now he’s aiming for Mars.
When Musk first tried to buy a Russian rocket back in 2001, the chief engineer of the Russian Space Agency thought he was a joke. But that only made Musk more determined. Rather than buy rockets, he decided to build them and invested $100 million dollars, half his fortune at the time, in the creation of SpaceX. By 2008 SpaceX had a contract with NASA to supply flights to the International Space Station.
At around the same time Musk was founding SpaceX, Jeff Bezos was working on a secretive project to bring tourists to space. By 2015, he was ready to go public with a new rocket named the New Shepherd, the first reusable rocket to reach space. A year later, Musk announced an ambitious, widely ridiculed, plan to colonise Mars within 30 years. In the meantime, Bezos was working on plans to colonise the moon. When competition with China made returning to the moon a top priority for President Trump, there was one big question: which company would get the lucrative NASA moon contract?
Aside from colonising space and NASA contracts, the two billionaires are also racing to launch the most satellites. This allows them to deliver low latency broadband data services everywhere on the Earth… and to monopolise all future terrestrial communications. Jeff Bezos recently announced the launch of Kuiper, his network of more than 3,000 satellites. Jeff Bezos recently announced the launch of Kuiper, his network of more than 3,000 satellites.
So where will it end? How far will this intensive commercialisation of space go? We investigate.
Director: Agnès Hubschman
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starting with bezos instead of elon is ridiculous. SpaceX is like 10 years ahead or more of blueorigin
what a stupid comparison !!!! spacex with blue origin , its like comparing ant with giant , spacex is miles ahead , compare it with states like china and us
All it took was a little gumption and a few billion dollars
We are fortunate to have them both in our time. You can do anything as long as you fix your mind towards it!
They think they’re saving humanity? All I see are ginormous billionaire phallic symbols shooting off into nowhere.
Very Educational…. inspired.😊
I feel like musks our guy. Seems like he's extremely passionate about exploration and the betterment of society. NOT THAT ANY OF OUR OPINIONS MEAN SHIT. in the grand scheme of things, however it seemed this doco implied that one is doing the work to help us and the other is doing it to benefit himself
20 years none stop work ….Jeff result is way
Even without bath …for servivng low cost job in day and work in nights
Parents give sleeping pins force fully
Every body knows you jeff
Mask everyone mark your will before I start
Whenever you give climax America .mark your property
Kite fly thred machine used in project
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Long as one of them gives a cheap phone to the market to disrupt the very bad rip off telecommunications services of Telstra Australia and i assume others around the globe, i will be happy.
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Blue Orign is a joke
South African American vice president of the United States of America Mr Elon musk
Elon is too much of a straight shooter for Dr. Evil to deal with.
Elon said he wishes all the best to Bezos and blue origin and in fact he wants more competition. Unfortunately at the time being no one, not one nation or space agency can do what SpaceX has done/ will do. What a time to be alive for the second space race!
I can say I contributed to his success I was in the big Ebay Pay pal dream myself in the millennium you would get sick how much money he charged to use his service but I owe him my success in a way.
I just worry about our planet he burns alot of fuel lol
Bezoff is a business man ….Elon musk is revolutionist huge differance
Hu can with idea first to attest my point space x started the buzz…blue orig saw the opportunity
This documentary is a joke. Trying to make Bezos space program relevant. Space X is at a different level, 10 years ahead of any space program in the word. Launching more rockets then all the space programs in the world combined.
Space X has the only rocket booster ( falcon 9 ) that can land back to earth, with precision, on a precise location. Jeff Bezos space program, in comparison is a horse and buggy and Space X is a jet plain, two different levels.
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