I think he finds Jeff boring.”Īnd now Branson - who has always loved a spectacle - is creating a distraction. “They do not care for each other,” Vance added. The comment was needling, making the point that Bezos was first.Īlways one to get the last word, Musk responded with a tweet of his own: “It is, however, important to clear up the difference between ‘space’ and ‘orbit’ ” - making it clear that his rockets went into orbit while Blue Origin’s merely went into space. Jabs from Bezos have been subtle - like when he tweeted “Welcome to the club” at Musk after the latter finally landed a rocket vertically in 2015. “The biggest tension is between Elon and Jeff,” Ashlee Vance, author of “ Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” told The Post. Musk’s SpaceX has already had more than 100 successful blastoffs and sent astronauts into outer space.Īnd while Musk, who turns 50 on June 28, has publicly expressed his skepticism of Bezos - he once wrote, “We are likelier to discover unicorns dancing in the flame duct” than for a Bezos Blue Origin ship to “dock with the Space Station” - privately, insiders say, his feelings are more competitive. HOW THEY PLAN TO GET TO SPACEĪs for Musk, Berger said, “He probably sees the Branson-Bezos race as a sideshow.” “I think he looks at Branson as somebody who probably wants to make money off of space to extend his Virgin empire” - rather than furthering humanity, like himself and Musk. “It would be disappointing for Bezos to work on something for 20 years and then finish second to Branson,” Eric Berger, author of “ Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX,” told The Post. (“We have not determined the date of our next flight,” a Virgin Galactic spokesperson told The Post.) On June 11, reports surfaced that Branson, 70, would steal Bezos’ thunder by going up in his Virgin Galactic VSS Unity over the Fourth of July weekend. The competition revved up June 10, after Bezos, 57, announced that he - along with an anonymous billionaire who paid $28 million for a seat on the Amazon founder’s New Shepard rocket - will fly to the brink of space and back on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Jeff is not used to being second or third. “They are three of the most iconic entrepreneurs and all used to winning. “There are big egos at play here,” Brad Stone, author of “ Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire,” told The Post. Rocket fuel is not the only thing powering the space race that pits billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson against each other.
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