The Cost-Cutting Space Barons

December 5, 2018

“The three of us working on space projects, we can do it for a fraction of the price that governments can do it,” Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic who hopes to send astronauts into space by Christmas, recently said about himself; Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and chief executive of Tesla; and Jeff Bezos, the founder of the space technology company Blue Origin and head of Amazon. The efforts of these “space barons” were recently recounted in a book review in Issues, which has also examined how private industries are reshaping traditional government-led space programs.

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