> we need more like him.
Not Musk bashing, I am genuinely curious as to why you think that?
Not Musk bashing, I am genuinely curious as to why you think that?
The space industry was terrible state and he disrupted it in many ways and is leading the charge on a new space industry totally chaining not just industry, but basically forcing change down governments throats including DoD, NASA and others.
Much the same could be argued about the car industry.
He simply thinks about problems differently. Listen to the interviews with the people that work with him, specially engineers.
Also, Bezos has Blue Origin.
FYI, Blue Origin has been at it longer that spaceX has existed. But SpaceX, spending at least 5X less money is landing orbital class rockets and whilst Blue Origin is doing suborbital flights.
not to argue, but both Blue Origin and SpaceX are private and don't disclose ther financial information, to my best knowledge. So where is this number coming from?
You couldn't be more wrong. They've had payload customers for their test flights. They also have 4 large customers signed up for their New Glenn rocket (in development).
BO has never reached orbit, and doesn't say much about how much they've spent, so no one knows what their costs will be.
Blue Origin is also developing VTVL rockets.
BO is expecting to have passenger flights by the end of 2018.