The cosmos has long been a canvas for creatives who imagine a future where people live among the stars. Now, humanity stands at a pivotal juncture as the laborious, expensive and high-stakes process of attempting to convert such grand visions into reality is actually underway.

In the Western world, perhaps no one has more influence over how this future may be realized than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Two of the world’s richest men, both of whom own commercial space companies, they have a combined net worth that tops $630 billion, a sum that is growing to rival the amount of money NASA has been allocated over its entire 66-year history.

Musk and Bezos have different ideas of what humans’ future in space should look like, and their visions are not mutually exclusive. But each presents its

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