Space industry has room for huge growth

Rocket launch: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on the launch pad before its maiden flight from the Kennedy Space Centre. The mission carries a prototype of Blue Ring, a US Defence Department-funded spacecraft. — AFP

NEW YORK: Amazon-founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos says the space industry has room for “multiple winners,” including his own firm Blue Origin LLC and the company it most hopes to challenge, Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

“There is going to be new uses for space that’s going to drive demand for large capacity up,” Bezos said in an interview with Bloomberg on the eve of his company’s first orbital rocket launch attempt.