Hi there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, why Musk and Bezos, the world's two richest men, are getting into the world's most eye-catching space race.

Look, a lot of kids dreamed of becoming astronauts.

Bezos's dream was always a little bit different.

He envisioned a future where businesses operated in space.

But is there any real money to be made here? Or are the billionaire barons simply engaged in a personal rivalry?

These are all businessmen who have competed, whether it's Elon with Tesla taking on Detroit or Jeff Bezos with Amazon taking on the book industry.

They know that in order to be successful, you need to be able to compete.

The billionaire space race, that's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

One week ago, the, 8, 7.

One week ago, the countdown was just beginning.

Two, one.

It was only a small step for mankind, frankly, this time, but possibly a giant leap in terms of the

battle of the billionaires to conquer space.

Go, Jeff, go, Mark, go Wally, go Oliver, you are going for space.

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, among the crew, to briefly reach zero gravity some

hundred kilometers above the Earth's surface

in his company's privately developed spacecraft New Shepard. Afterwards, Bezos, the world's

richest man, sounded like he was one of its happiest too.

Bowie, that was incredible. The most profound piece of it for me was looking out at the Earth and looking at the Earth's atmosphere.

Every astronaut, everybody who's been up into space, they say this, that it changes them and they look at it,

and they're kind of amazed and awestruck by the earth and its beauty, but also by its fragility.

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