Tom Leonard reveals the dark side of the 20-year feud between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos as Bezos wins a $3.4 billion contract to compete against Musk in putting man back on the moon, raising the question: Who will prevail in this conflict of the galactic billionaires' egos?
Outrageous egos battling each other across the cosmos? Check.
Sci-fi nerds who’ve definitely watched too much Star Trek? Check.
Humanity’s next chapter in a space left in the hands of insanely rich tech billionaires happy to take NASA’s tax-payer billions? Check.
This is Mission Control: We have lift-off!
Just a month after Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket to date - the 400-ft long, $67 million Starship - only for it to explode mid-air just four minutes into flight, a phoenix has risen from the flames to bravely take on the quest for space travel.
Or at least, that may be how bitter rival Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos sees it.
As part of NASA’s Artemis V mission, schedule...