About this time.

It's not America versus Russia.

It's the world's two richest men going toe to toe, Industry sources say Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to focus more on his blue origin rocket business with a view to putting progress into hyper drive.

A space launch company has fallen far behind competitors.

Space X.

It's run by archrival Elon Musk, now the only man richer than Bezos ignition.

Let's Blue Origin was beaten to billions of dollars in U.

S.

Contracts by the Tesla founders firm.

Now Bezos may have the time to change that.

Last week, he said he was stepping down as boss off the online giant to focus on personal projects.

That's sure to include blue origin, which he has called his most important work.

Bezos has Bean liquidating a billion dollars off his Amazon stock every year to fund the project.

Now the focus is NASA's planned return to the moon.

Blue Origin hopes the space agency will choose its design for a lunar lander.

Winning is seen as critical to the firm's credibility and its prospects for eventual profitability.

But time is tight with a NASA due to winnow the list off possible contractors down to two by the end of April.

Whatever happens in the longer term, Bezos is thinking bigger, way bigger.

So my long term prediction and this is gonna take hundreds of years.

So don't worry.

Prematurely, Earth will end up being zoned residential and light industry on Do all the heavy industry will be done in space.

That is for the future, though.

Right now there is a space race to be won, and neither Jeff Bezos nor Elon Musk is known to enjoy coming second.