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April 28, 2015

Billionaires face off in Texas space race

  • Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both seem to have unlimited resources to throw at space but their personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart.
    • By MICHAEL GRACZYK
    Associated Press

    VAN HORN, Texas — An isolated edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly secretive part of the 21st-century space race, one of two being directed in the Lone Star State by Internet billionaires whose personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart.

    The presence of Blue Origin, LLC, the brainchild of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, barely registers in nearby Van Horn, a way station along Interstate 10, a full decade after he began buying land in one of Texas' largest and most remote counties.


     
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