Bezos, Branson and Musk are fighting over space bragging rights, but who's really paying for their trips?
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SectionsTVFeaturedMore from NBC Follow NBC News Tech billionaires are jockeying over their jaunts into space — but who's really paying for their trips?Billions in pandemic-fueled dollars enabled Blue Origin's suborbital trip on Tuesday, the spaceflight company's founder Jeff Bezos acknowledged at a press conference.“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer — because you guys paid for all this,” Bezos, also Amazon's founder and former CEO, said after the trip, which launched four civilians into space on an 11-minute ride.Bezos' personal fortune, which he uses to bankroll Blue Origin, grew by $86 billion during the pandemic, making him the first person in modern history worth more than $200 billion, according to estimates from Forbes.
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