“I Want To See Millions Of People Living And Working In Space”

You hear less about Jeff Bezos’ ambitions for space pioneering than you do Elon Musk’s or Richard Branson’s, perhaps because his core business, that mom-and-pop store Amazon, is such a lightning rod, sucking up all the oxygen. From a report about his work on Blue Origin from Lisa Eadicicco at Business Insider:

“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has an ambitious vision for the future of humanity.

When asked about why space exploration appears to be a common interest among tech entrepreneurs such as himself, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Bezos replied with the following:

‘We are really evolved to be pioneers,’ Bezos told Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget at this year’s Ignition conference. ‘And for good reason. New worlds have a way of saving old worlds… And that’s how it should be. We need the frontier. My vision is I want to see millions of people living and working in space.’

Bezos’ private spaceflight company Blue Origin is currently working with the United Launch Alliance to build a new liquid rocket engine called the BE-4. The United Launch Alliance is said to be one of the biggest rivals to Musk’s commercial spaceflight company SpaceX.”

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