Billionaire row: Musk takes swipe at Bezos over NASA moon project

Elon Musk recently won a coveted United States government contract to build a spaceship to the moon. Jeff Bezos was not happy.

The space race between the world’s two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos’s attempt to challenge a major NASA contract. The two billionaires, who have been trying to launch long-range orbital rockets, were competing for a coveted contract from the United States government to build a spaceship to deliver astronauts to the moon as early as 2024. Musk won. Bezos was not happy.