The Purpose of Going into Space
The following remarks were made on May 9, 2019, in Washington, DC, at an event to unveil Blue Origin’s lunar lander, Blue Moon.
BLUE ORIGIN IS the most important work I’m doing. I have great conviction about it, based on a simple argument: Earth is the best planet.
The big question we need to ponder is: Why do we need to go to space? My answer is different from the common “plan B” argument: the Earth gets destroyed and you want to be somewhere else. It’s unmotivating and doesn’t work for me. When I was in high school I wrote, “The earth is finite, and if the world economy and population are to keep expanding, space is the only way to go.” I still believe this.
The question “What’s the best planet in this ...
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