Name: The battle of the US billionaires as they race China to the moon
Uploaded: 2026-02-13T17:11:27.000Z
Duration: 1 min 46 s
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The space race between US billionaires is heating up.

Both Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos Blue Origin want to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030.

Musk has said his firm plans to build a lunar base.

It shifted SpaceX's ambitions from the Mars colonization mission Musk has long called for.

Bezos space company has also put more focus on its own moon program.

It shut its suborbital space tourism business to move those resources into its lunar lander program.

That's ahead of a planned uncrewed mission to the surface this year.

Musk now wants to convince investors SpaceX will stay the dominant force in space ahead of a planned IPO later this year.

He posted on X numerous times this week about what he called a pivot to the moon.

It recalled the story of the slow and steady animal winning a race against a speedy but impulsive hare.

Executives at other space companies say they also expect to benefit from higher spending on the new moonshot by the US Government.

Blue Origin's uncrewed mission to the moon this year comes ahead of a planned astronaut landing that will be part of NASA's Artemis program, which also relies heavily on SpaceX's Starship as the US tries to return to the moon.

Blue Origin and SpaceX are building their moon landers with billions of dollars in funding from NASA.

The agency has pressed the companies to speed up their lunar lander development as it tries to win the space race against.