Elon Musk stands out with his space company Space X Amazon Jeff Bezos and pokes fun at his youngster - the tweets are not always free of youngsters.
Hawthorne - Elon Musk aims high. 384,400 kilometers high. To the moon. Measured? Not at all! Almost two weeks ago, the Tesla boss landed a major order - not with Tesla, but with his second mainstay, the space company SpaceX: The company is supposed to develop a lunar module and ensure that an astronaut sets foot on the moon for the first time since 1972. The order, endowed with $ 2.9 billion, is of immense importance for Musk - also because it outperformed his long-term rival Jeff Bezos.
Similar to the Tesla boss, the Amazon founder has also treated himself to a space company: Blue Origin.
Bezos' had thus also applied for the contract.
Because he received nothing, he has now filed a formal complaint against the award to the Government Accountability Office.
The decision for SpaceX was "flawed", America's return to the moon was "not only delayed, but endangered".
According to
FAZ
,
Blue Origin bothers,
among other things, that, contrary to expectations, NASA has only awarded the contract to one and not to two companies.
Meanwhile, Musk is having a lot of fun on Twitter and teasing Bezos - and not entirely suitable for young people.
Elon Musk makes fun of Jeff Bezos on Twitter - and reaches below the belt
"He can't get it up (into orbit) lol," Musk replies to a user who tweets about the Blue Origin complaint.
Musk also digs out a two-year-old tweet in which he has already made fun of Jeff Bezos 'plans for the moon: At that time, Musk had renamed Bezos' "Blue Moon" landing capsule "Blue Balls".
This is the English term for so-called cavalier pain.
They can appear in men after sexual arousal.
In English, the term is used colloquially for unsatisfied desire.
The trigger for the mutual aversion is not entirely clear.
Musk may just be angry that Jeff Bezos recently replaced him as the richest man in the world, according to the current Forbes list.
Now Musk is rubbing his triumph over the moon under the nose of the Amazon founder.
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For Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, the outcome of the race is indeed a bitter disappointment.
The Apollo missions to the moon in the late 1960s have always fascinated Bezos.
He even described it as a “groundbreaking moment” in his life when, as a child, he watched spellbound on television as Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon.
Some time ago he even had parts of the Saturn V rocket, with which Armstrong began his journey, recovered from the Atlantic.
The current lunar project, in which not Bezos, but Musk comes into play, comes from Donald Trump's pen. It bears the name "Artemis", named after the moon goddess and twin sister of Apollo. The former US president aimed to send a human to the moon by 2024. Trump's successor Joe Biden is apparently sticking to the ambitious program, but according to the
FAZ
the government is considering
changes to the schedule. The return to the moon could therefore be postponed. Nasa plans to include a woman among the two astronauts who will set foot on the moon. She would then be the first woman on the moon and would certainly - for biological reasons alone - have no need for such a childish betting fair on Twitter.
