Elon Musk Winner Of The Billionaire Rocketeer Space Race
When Jeff Bezos heard about Elon Musk wanting to start a rocket company, he actually started his own rocket company Blue Origin first in 2000 while Elon Musk was still making money with Tesla stock and becoming the richest man in the world, and then Musk started his rocket company SpaceX in 2002. Then in 2004 Richard Branson who owns Virgin Airlines launched Virgin Galactic and the three billionaires became known as the, “billionaire rocketeers.” Well 23 years later now at the end of 2023 in the first week of December only one of them was successful in reaching space and turning it into a profitable business venture, and that was Elon Musk and SpaceX, that has been a successful commercial rocket launching company launching payloads as well as people to space at least to the international space station and to LEO. His Low Earth Orbit satellite array called Starlink provides free internet to places on Earth that have never had access to in...