Jeff Bezos Just COPIED SpaceX and Elon Musk!

It would seem Bezos’ companies are always trying to catch up with Musk’s companies. But is Bezos really a copycat of Musk?
Elon Musk, the outspoken CEO of a couple of companies has taken to social media more than once to call out his rival and fellow billionaire as a copycat. On the surface, it may look like a petty remark from an otherwise serious businessman but a closer look at some of the moves made by Bezos’ companies may reveal otherwise.
SpaceX vs Blue Origin
It is a known fact that Bezos started Blue Origin before Musk started but by all indications, SpaceX has surpassed Blue Origin. Musk’s company already has successful launches under its belt with at least three different rocket designs and is a contractor with National Aerospace Agency, taking their astronauts to space and bringing them back safely. This is while Blue Origin is still working on its first manned launch rocket to deep space.
Rather than working hard to design a rocket that can compete with SpaceX’s designs, Bezos would try to catch up with his rival by using his favorite weapon, court cases and petitions.
For instance, in 2013, when SpaceX tried to get exclusive use of a NASA’s historic 39A launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Blue Origin protested with the government to stop SpaceX, arguing for the Launchpad to be turned into a commercial spaceport that it would manage and make available to all launch companies, which was ironic as it had no space worthy rocket of its own.
Musk’s response looks prophetic in hindsight, as he called the move a phony blocking tactic and taunted that SpaceX would accommodate Blue Origin in five years if they managed to make a NASA certified human crewed vehicle that could dock with the Space Station. He added that discovering unicorns dancing in the flame duct of the rocket was a scenario more likely to happen.
Five years after, Blue Origin had no spacecraft fitting Musk’s description. But SpaceX won the right to the launch pad and got a 20 year lease.
Still on Bezos desperately trying to get a NASA contract, just like SpaceX, Blue Origin is seriously lobbying the senate to pass a bill that has generated lots of controversy. The bill contains an amendment that would gift NASA up to 10 billion dollar to spend on its Moon lander program.
Blue Origin’s interest in the 10 billion dollar bill stems from the fact that NASA awarded the contract for the lander to SpaceX only, rather than to two companies as Blue Origin had hoped, which would have given it a better chance to compete.
NASA cited as reasons a lack of funds for going with only SpaceX, who had the least expensive proposal and also the most workable solution technically.
The bill has however been called out for what it is by many people, including Senator Paul Rand who tweeted: “Jeff Bezos lost out on a space contract so now Senate inserts a Bezos bailout provision for $10 billion for his space company??”
To force the hand of NASA to award a second contract, hopefully to Blue Origin, the bill being pushed by Blue Origin includes a clause to for a 30 day deadline for NASA to ‘correct’ the contract award, a very small window that makes it unlikely for the agency to design a new development programme.
Blue Origin is doing this while still pursuing a complaint before the US Government Accountability Office on how NASA awarded the contract.
Now it seems Bezos is trying to one-up Musk in a big way by signing up to go to space himself in July, with his younger brother Mark in tow. The pair will go aboard Blue Origin’s first human space flight using its reusable rock New Shepard, where they would spend a total of 13 minutes.
Granted, Bezos has had the ambition to go to space for a long time, as he explained to the Miami Herald at his high school graduation as valedictorian. But this is something Musk could have easily done on one of his reusable rockets that have been up there and back.
Starlink vs Kuiper
When Musk started Starlink in 2018 to provide fast and affordable internet services to underserved communities all over the world, little did he know he was creating a blueprint for his rival Bezos to follow.
Musk envisioned putting about 30,000 satellites in orbit to beam internet down to the earth. Four years later, Bezos is also proposing to send up his own satellites to do exactly what Starlink is doing.
But Bezos is doing more than just copying Starlink’s concept with his Kuiper Project, he set up operation headquarters in Redmond, few miles away from the facility where Starlink satellites are made! What were the odds of being so close to your own rival in a country as large as the United States?
Amazon then proceeded to sign up people who worked and held key positions in Starlink, even offering them double their salaries to make them switch camp! That includes the person heading Project Kuiper, who was a vice president at SpaceX.

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