{"id":2149,"date":"2021-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/the-tech-billionaire-space-race-who-is-jeff-bezos-up-against\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:40:14","slug":"the-tech-billionaire-space-race-who-is-jeff-bezos-up-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/the-tech-billionaire-space-race-who-is-jeff-bezos-up-against\/","title":{"rendered":"The tech billionaire space race: who is Jeff Bezos up against?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Amazon founder prepares to jet off in his Blue Origin vessel, can he compete with Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/07\/jeff-bezos-to-go-into-space-on-first-crewed-flight-of-new-shepard-rocket\">Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every billionaire needs something to spend their fortunes on. For Howard Hughes, it was the Spruce Goose; for Roman Abramovich, it&rsquo;s Chelsea FC. And for the current crop of tech moguls, it&rsquo;s space.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos has led the charge. He founded his company, Blue Origin, in 2000, after a conversation with his friend, the science fiction author Neal Stephenson. And in July, 21 years later, the investment will pay off: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/07\/jeff-bezos-to-go-into-space-on-first-crewed-flight-of-new-shepard-rocket\">Bezos will blast himself, his brother, and a third fee-paying guest 100km up<\/a> in the company&rsquo;s New Shepard rocket, brushing the edge of space until he comes back down to earth three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jun\/07\/the-tech-billionaire-space-race-who-is-jeff-bezos-up-against\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Amazon founder prepares to jet off in his Blue Origin vessel, can he compete with Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX? Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket Every billionaire needs something to spend their fortunes on. For Howard Hughes, it was the Spruce Goose; for Roman Abramovich, it&rsquo;s Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The tech billionaire space race: who is Jeff Bezos up against? - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/the-tech-billionaire-space-race-who-is-jeff-bezos-up-against\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The tech billionaire space race: who is Jeff Bezos up against? - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As Amazon founder prepares to jet off in his Blue Origin vessel, can he compete with Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX? 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