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We are incredibly lucky to have not one, but two, highly successful, forward-looking entrepreneurs who are both intensely interested in bringing the dreams of the pioneers of astronautics (Tsiolkovsky and Goddard looked forward to eventual planetary colonies, space colonies, and interstellar migration, as did later visionaries such as Gerard O'Neall) to fruition, and we are even luckier that they are both here at the same time. Not only do Bezos and Musk serve as "back-ups" to each other, but the business and personal rivalries between them increase both of their efforts to advance the state of the astronautical art. Neither Edison nor Westinghouse would have achieved as much as they did in so short a time (and in other fields, such as jet engines) without the competition of the other.
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