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The fact that Jeff Bezos was willing to ride his rocket past the Kármán line, but Elon Musk hasn't ridden his own rocket yet really speaks volumes about how much each billionaire trusts their product. (kbin.social)

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Common Elno, you gonna let that Bozo beat you to space? Pinky promise you won't be the next Stockton Rush, just do it already.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really.

SpaceX goes orbital, if you followed the Inspiration4 mission, the team spent 6 months training for their jaunt into space.

Blue Origin training course is a few weeks at most for going up on New Shepherd.

Musk is CEO Tesla and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, Chairman of Twitter, etc.. Bezo's is Chairman of Amazon as a means to give up his position in Amazon. Bezo's has 6 months to give up, Musk doesn't.

Also did you not watch the launch? Shatner was having a profound moment and Bezo's stomped on it.

Jared Isaacman (billionaire) did Inspiration4 and will do Polaris for the challenge. I get the impression Bezo did it for bragging rights. I think Musk is chasing being responsible for starting a Mars colony and probably wouldn't even care about going to Mars