SPAZIO-JEFF BEZOS and ELON MUSK.....by InVerse
ESTRATTO
ELON MUSK’S MARS CITY? It’s nothing compared to Jeff Bezos’ vision.
The two billionaires are locked in a race to send humans to space, with Musk’s SpaceX far in front of Bezos’ Blue Origin venture. But the two differ on what to do when humanity arrives in space: Musk wants to establish a self-sustaining city on Mars, while Bezos would rather see humans orbiting Earth in giant space stations.
Musk’s vision receives a lot of publicity, but space consultant Rand Simberg tells Inverse that Bezos’ goal is the “more expansive.”
“Elon is what [science fiction writer Isaac] Asimov would have called a planetary chauvinist,” he says. “He thinks people need to be on planets. He wants to be a multi-planet species. That's nice, I guess. But Bezos actually has a more expansive vision.”
............Simberg wrote the 2013 book Safe Is Not an Option, where he argued that NASA and other agencies’ focus on making spaceflight as safe as possible stifled exploration. Eight years on from the book’s publication, private companies have soared in the race to space — each with their own visions.