Jeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASA

It looks like the billionaires’ race to colonize space will kick-off in two different directions. While SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dreams of sending people to Mars as soon as 2024, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos believes it’s more practical to start out on the moon. 

Chatting with GeekWire‘s Alan Boyle at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles on Friday, Bezos outlined his plan to send people to the moon and eventually build a permanent settlement there. 

Bezos has a pragmatic view of why we’ll need those lunar bases in the future. “The Earth is not a very good place to do heavy industry. It’s convenient for us right now, but in the not-too-distant future — I’m talking decades, maybe 100 years — it’ll start to be easier to do a lot of the things that we currently do on Earth in space, because we’ll have so much energy,” he said.  Read more…

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