This is what legends do; they buy seats at the table. Yes, Jeff Bezos continues to shape his world. If they say it is money, give it to them – and then join the party. If that party is estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, this $2 billion is a pure “equity investment” for that future: “NASA may have chosen Elon Musk’s SpaceX over Blue Origin to build the spacecraft that will land the next Americans on the moon, but for Jeff Bezos, the race isn’t over. The world’s richest man has offered to spot the agency $2 billion in exchange for part of the moon landing contract. NASA originally awarded the contract solely to SpaceX due to budget constraints, but Bezos said he hopes waiving $2 billion will reopen the door to a joint contract.”
- Blue Origin will bridge the HLS budgetary funding shortfall by waiving all payments in the current and next two government fiscal years up to $2B to get the program back on track right now. This offer is not a deferral, but is an outright and permanent waiver of those payments. This offer provides time for government appropriation actions to catch up.
- Blue Origin will, at its own cost, contribute the development and launch of a pathfinder mission to low-Earth orbit of the lunar descent element to further retire development and schedule risks. This pathfinder mission is offered in addition to the baseline plan of performing a precursor uncrewed landing mission prior to risking any astronauts to the Moon. This contribution to the program is above and beyond the over $1B of corporate contribution cited in our Option A proposal that funds items such as our privately developed BE-7 lunar lander engine and indefinite storage of liquid hydrogen in space. All of these contributions are in addition to the $2B waiver of payments referenced above.
If the best real estate project of the future is in space, getting yourself to the gates now could be catalytic. Now, we will be waiting for NASA to respond. I am betting that Blue Origin will join the party and Bezos will have a big seat on the table. People make money for moments like this!
Oh yes, one man said that money is necessary to get yourself out of the inconveniences of life. With $2 billion, even space programs will align.
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Tom Cruise’s role in Mission Impossible inspired many American kids to join the Navy, so if what the billionaires are doing can spur new level of enthusiasm in space sciences among kids, why not?
How about young entrepreneurs who ordinarily wouldn’t see a relationship between running a web platform that sells goods and becoming a key player in the space industry? It tells you that dreams and ambitions are unbounded.
As for the activists, before you scream, how about hungry mouths to feed, the environment? Remember that we have over 8 billion humans here, and to be able to keep billions of people economically relevant in the future, we must create new industries and explore things we haven’t done before, that way, new leagues of workforces will emerge.
We need more role models, those whose dreams and visioning capability are as high as the heavens.
So many lessons and inspirations to draw from what is currently happening, do not waste time dwelling on cheap thinking and social distractions.
More of this please!