Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is not competing with SpaceX's Elon Musk and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson with his spaceflight and instead said they are all contributing to a future space industry that would eventually have 'thousands' of companies. 'What we have to do is build a whole industry Gayle, it's got to be an ecosystem made up of dozens, hundreds, thousands of companies. 'They compete against each other but there can be many winners,' he told Gayle King. Branson congratulated Bezos' Blue Origin team on Twitter on Tuesday after their mission, saying: 'Well done Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, Mark, Wally and Oliver. 'This sounds fantastical but it will happen - we can move all heavy industry, all polluting industry, off of earth and operate it in space.

Source: Daily Mail July 21, 2021 18:22 UTC