{"id":277627,"date":"2021-08-17T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211755"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:31:09","slug":"are-bezos-and-musk-launching-us-into-a-new-space-age-or-just-a-u-s-space-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/17\/are-bezos-and-musk-launching-us-into-a-new-space-age-or-just-a-u-s-space-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Bezos and Musk Launching Us Into a New Space Age, or Just a U.S. Space Grab?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The space race was once between two countries\u2014the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now (at least on the surface) between three billionaires\u2014Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Two of them\u2014Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, and Bezos, founder of Blue Origin\u2014recently rode their respective companies\u2019 suborbital flights (meaning that they cannot be  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/17\/are-bezos-and-musk-launching-us-into-a-new-space-age-or-just-a-u-s-space-grab\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/17\/are-bezos-and-musk-launching-us-into-a-new-space-age-or-just-a-u-s-space-grab\/\">Are Bezos and Musk Launching Us Into a New Space Age, or Just a U.S. Space Grab?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/17\/are-bezos-and-musk-launching-us-into-a-new-space-age-or-just-a-u-s-space-grab\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space race was once between two countries\u2014the Soviet Union and the United States. It is now (at least on the surface) between three billionaires\u2014Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Two of them\u2014Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, and Bezos, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278187,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277627\/revisions\/278187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}