The Guardian Weekly

Space invader

Inspired by the late Princeton futurist Gerard K O’Neill, Jeff Bezos dreams of moving heavy industry off of Earth and into space to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He wants to lay the foundation for an extra-terrestrial economy where thousands of people are living and working in space.

His company is building a rocket as powerful as the one that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon and has partnered with leading defence contractors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to develop a lunar lander that could bring humans back to the moon’s surface.

It has designed and built one of the most powerful rocket engines ever made and inked contracts with the United Launch Alliance to supply the engine for its next generation Vulcan rocket.

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