How Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Is Taking on SpaceX in the Race to the Moon

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

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P.M. Edition for Dec. 2. Blue Origin is gaining momentum in its quest to land astronauts on the moon. WSJ’s Micah Maidenberg discusses the company’s challenge to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defends the September strike that killed survivors of an initial attack on the alleged drug boat, but says he didn’t see the second strike. Plus, Michael Dell and his wife Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to expand the Trump administration’s plan to provide savings accounts for young children. Sabrina Siddiqui hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.4	Defense Secretary Pete Hegsteth says he didn't see the second strike on a suspected drugboat that killed survivors, but defends the operation.
0:42.4	Plus, Michael and Susan Dell are donating more than $6 billion to grow the Trump administration's plans for children's savings accounts.
0:51.0	And how Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is building momentum in the new U.S. space race.
0:57.0	Blue Origin and SpaceX both have contracts right now to deliver NASA astronauts to the lunar
1:02.9	surface, and they're both trying to figure out faster ways to do it.
1:06.8	It's Tuesday, December 2nd.
1:08.5	I'm Sabrina Siddiqui for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for Alex Oscella.
1:12.5	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:25.4	Defense Secretary Pete Hegsseth today defended the September strikes on a suspected drug trafficking
1:30.8	boat that has drawn criticism. Lawmakers and many law of war experts have argued that targeting
1:36.1	helpless individuals in a shipwreck amounts to a war crime. Speaking at a cabinet meeting,
1:41.2	Hegset said he watched the September 2nd operation live, but
1:44.7	then left the room ahead of a second strike, which killed two survivors of a first strike.
1:49.7	He says he learned of the second attack an hour or two later.
1:53.1	He praised the top military commander, Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, for making the quote,
1:57.6	correct decision to destroy the boat.
2:00.1	He sunk the boat, sunk the boat, and eliminated the threat.
2:04.9	And it was the right call.
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