{"id":131530,"date":"2021-11-30T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/why-jeff-bezos-vision-of-space-is-more-expansive-than-elon-musks"},"modified":"2021-11-30T21:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:22:34","slug":"why-jeff-bezos-vision-of-space-is-more-expansive-than-elon-musks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/why-jeff-bezos-vision-of-space-is-more-expansive-than-elon-musks","title":{"rendered":"Why Jeff Bezos\u2019 vision of space is \u201cmore expansive\u201d than Elon Musk\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-jeff-bezos-vision-of-space-is-more-expansive-than-elon-musks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two billionaires are locked in a race to send humans to space, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-mechazilla-starships-giant-orbital\">Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a> far in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-blue-origin-nasa-contract\">Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s vision receives a lot of publicity, but space consultant Rand Simberg tells <em>Inverse<\/em> that Bezos\u2019 goal is the \u201cmore expansive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElon is what [science fiction writer Isaac] Asimov would have called a planetary chauvinist,\u201d he says. \u201cHe thinks people need to be on planets. He wants to be a multi-planet species. That\u2019s nice, I guess. But Bezos actually has a more expansive vision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two billionaires are locked in a race to send humans to space, with Musk\u2019s SpaceX far in front of Bezos\u2019 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}