Egos clash in Bezos and Musk space race

Paris: Even the Milky Way seems too small to keep the egos of tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk from colliding as they vie to conquer space.

Musk aimed low with a recent tweet saying “can’t get it up (to orbit)” in response to a post about Bezos-founded space company Blue Origin protesting NASA’s choice of Musk’s SpaceX team to build a module that will land the next US astronauts on the moon.

“This is more than just a battle for space,” said Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives. “There is some ego at play as well; this has become even more personal.”