Jeff Bezos Plan: How To Colonize Moon With Blue Origin!
1,299There's a lot of plans to go to Mars in order to colonize the planet. But for the head of Amazon, he has a much simpler idea: colonize the moon, and he has the plan to do it. Join us as we explore it!
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9. The Jeff Bezos View On Space
For those of you who don't know, Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, you know the major website where you likely have bought more things than you care to admit? And throughout his life, he's had a fascination with space. So much so that it was him who found the Apollo 11 Engines that were jettisoned during the launch of the legendary mission. Does that not sound impressive? Did I forget to mention that he took a submersible to the depths of the ocean to find them? Because he did because he loves space.
He also has a very practical view about space, and why Earth is so special:
“Earth is the best planet,” Bezos quipped. “It is not close. This one is really good. Don’t even get me started on Venus.”
Venus for the record is a planet that is so hot that any attempts to live on it would be extremely difficult not to mention the planet is filled with gasses that we can't breathe. That's why he joked about it.
Anyway, for Bezos, he knows that the biggest danger isn't NOT exploring space, or even failed attempts to get to Mars, it's staying on Earth when we KNOW that there are finite resources here on the planet.
“What happens when unlimited demand meets finite resources?” he asked. “Rationing.”
"That’s the path that we would be on,” he added. “It would lead for the first time to where your children and grandchildren have worse lives than you. That's a bad path."
Which brings us back to space, because he knows that in space we have options, options to live, but also, options on how to make life on Earth so much better. But how is that possible?
8. Colonies and Resources
Obviously when it comes to exploring space, the plan is to go and create colonies, and Bezos is not only behind this, he feels we need to get this done...yesterday.
“Our choice,” one of Bezos’s plans he laid stated, “stasis and rationing or dynamism and growth."
Clearly he is a guy who feels we should go and be dynamic and grow the Earth. He even laid out his plan in part by noting that we need self-sustaining colonies in key places in the universe to act as a sort of "relief" to the population on Earth. After all, if they're not here taking the resources of others, that gives more for everyone else. Basic supply and demand.
But unlike many, he's not looking to Mars (unlike NASA and SpaceX among others), he feels that humanity has a lot to get from the moon itself. Not to mention he feels it'd be better and cheaper to try and launch a colony mission there versus one to Mars. And technically, he is right. The problem for a moon colony mission has always been whether we could work with the limited survival resources there. But for Bezos and others, they're looking at the more financial reasoning to go there. Because what the moon lakes in atmosphere and water, it makes up for in: cobalt, gold, helium, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and other resources.
However, just because he thinks the moon is better doesn't mean it's any easier to get there. Except, that he has a way to possible do it better, cheaper, and of course, put him and Amazon on the map once again in a big way. He calls it...Blue Origin.
7. Blue Origin
What is Blue Origin? Well, that would be Jeff Bezos' personal space company (not unlike what Elon Musk has with SpaceX), and what he is working on is a reusable engine that wouldn't just send astronauts to the moon, but also send tourists into space. All of which would help make Bezos billions of dollars in contracts from various space agencies since his rockets are currently very advanced. Plus, having reusable rockets saves time from having to build individual ones for each mission. Which obviously can be very costly as well.
Has he actually proven that his rockets work? Yes, actually he has, he has two rockets that he has both in the works and is also testing. One of them is the 59-foot New Shepherd Model. This is the one that he aims to use to put people into space. In May of 2019 he launched and landed one of these powerful rockets without any issue. Early speculation states that he could go and put people into space very soon. Possibly even early 2020 should things work out.
However, he's not stopping there, he's also working on a model known as New Glenn, which is 310-feet-tall, and can go much farther than the New Shepherd Model. If this was to be launched, it would be the biggest space vehicle every put into space (the International Space Station doesn't count for the record).
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