{"id":132385,"date":"2021-12-14T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/bill-gates-wont-join-the-space-race-he-wants-to-eradicate-malaria-and-tuberculosis-instead"},"modified":"2021-12-14T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:22:19","slug":"bill-gates-wont-join-the-space-race-he-wants-to-eradicate-malaria-and-tuberculosis-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/bill-gates-wont-join-the-space-race-he-wants-to-eradicate-malaria-and-tuberculosis-instead","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates won\u2019t join the space race. He wants to eradicate malaria and tuberculosis instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-wont-join-the-space-race-he-wants-to-eradicate-malaria-and-tuberculosis-instead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the world\u2019s richest men are squaring off in what\u2019s become a rivalry for the ages \u2014 the space race. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two richest men on the planet and the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin, respectively, have grand designs on the cosmos. They predict a universe where the internet is accessible from anywhere, humans are an interplanetary species, and rotating space stations host permanent residents.<\/p>\n<p>But Bill Gates isn\u2019t putting his wealth into these off-planet endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Gates, the fourth richest person alive, according to Forbes, has what he considers higher aspirations right here on Earth. While internet constellations like SpaceX\u2019s Starlink and Amazon\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/16\/tech\/amazon-satellite-internet-project-kuiper\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Project Kuiper<\/a> aim to bring for-profit fixes to the world\u2019s pressing connectivity issues, Gates told CNN\u2019s Becky Anderson on Wednesday that more basic problems consume his time now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s richest men are squaring off in what\u2019s become a rivalry for the ages \u2014 the space race. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two richest men on the planet and the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin, respectively, have grand designs on the cosmos. They predict a universe where the internet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2019,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-elon-musk","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132385","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}