Let face it
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, what have they achieve?
Blue Origin handful suborbital flights, there launch rocket is in Limbo and it's engines are 7 year behind Schedule
Virgin launch Space ship one in 2003, now almost 20 years later, one flight with Branson on board to beat Bezos...
SpaceX on other hand, transformed the Space Flight in last 20 years (also Tesla for Car Industry)
150 launches, with in 2015 first ballistic return of First stage and 2018 the launch Falcon heavy...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0FZIwabctw
in 2007 a reporter ask Musk if he is afraid of competitions (Arianespace, ULA, Russians etc)
Musk replied "
We have no serious competition..."
View: https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1517622711014494208
In 2022 TED interview in Gigatexas, Musk say "“
I don't care about the economics at all.”
That say someone who became riches man on the planet ! (or he became the riches because he don't care about economics)
now to Bernie...
I my option he his a leftist Hypocrite, first Attacking Musk as Superrich, Demand that Musk has to pay his Tax.
what Musk did he payed $11 billion to IRS, only to sanders criticise Musk again that is Media Stunt..
Now is Bernie Sanders whine around that Musk could (
and he will) reach the Moon and Mars bevor NASA.
This is absolute Hypocorism of worst kind by mr Sanders
The USA had 50 year time to bring a US Astronaut to Mars, they din't, Capitol Hill not care
There were several attempt, but congress murder them all...
Space Shuttle was slaughter by Congress with help of Walter Mondale
in end NASA cut down the Shuttle program to a contraption that was expensive to fly and killed 17 Astronauts and engineers
Today SLS is a job creation program of Senat, it must create job, not fly mission...
In Mean time Elon Musk SpaceX builds the biggest Rocket to rule them All...