Bezos: The US needs two competing SpaceX-scale launch companies
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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos discusses competition with Elon Musk's SpaceX across lunar missions and national defense launch capabilities.
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“SpaceX doesn't have to lose for Blue to succeed. What the U.S. Needs is it needs two SpaceX's. It needs two launch companies competing vigorously against each other to try to give us the most capabilities as a country, commercially, civilly, from a defense perspective, because our adversaries aren't standing still.”
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