The space race was once between two countries—the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now (at least on the surface) between three billionaires—Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Two of them—Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, and Bezos, founder of Blue Origin—recently rode their respective companies’ suborbital flights (meaning that they cannot be More

The post Are Bezos and Musk Launching Us Into a New Space Age, or Just a U.S. Space Grab? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.