Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon ...

Gregg Newton/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit.

including Bezos himself – famously wearing a cowboy hat. But the company has never sent anything into orbit, until now. SpaceX, by a light year. It has until now "dramatically outperformed" Blue ...