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The US was behind the USSR at the beginning of the last space race. Jeff Bezos is an extremely smart and talented guy, and is now focusing a lot more of his tim

The US was behind the USSR at the beginning of the last space race. Jeff Bezos is an extremely smart and talented guy, and is now focusing a lot more of his time on Blue Origin. I wouldn't count them out.

ranman 5y ago
Blue Origin technically started before SpaceX and has an increasing delta in accomplishments... They're easily a decade plus behind and SpaceX doesn't seem to be slowing down. Bezos is smart and talented... but it's hard to overcome a lead like that.
ragebol 5y ago
Bezos is a businessman, rockets require engineering. Sure, he studied electrical engineering in the 80s, but I don't think that's going to help Blue Origin catch up with it's main competitor.
- nimithryn 5y ago
  Bezos can hire engineers to work for him. Amazon requires lots of engineers and that works fine. Bezos’s big contributions will be leadership, creating efficient processes, etc. He’s good at those things. You don’t need to be able to build the product to run a company.
  - ragebol 5y ago
    Then why hasn't he done so earlier?
    - nimithryn 5y ago
      Because he was busy being CEO of Amazon, one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Now he will spend most of his time on Blue Origin.
iso1631 5y ago
And the US was behind Russia at the end of the last space race, as Americans had to take Russian rockets to even get to orbit