Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos space race is heating up, and Texas gets a front-row seat
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This is the first of three articles exploring the two men vying to dominate the commercial space industry and the two Texas towns where they are launching their spacecraft.
Along the southern beaches and western mountains of Texas, two of the world’s richest men are launching rockets.
Geography, wealth and an obsession with space have fueled the enterprises of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But other than murals depicting their skyward-gazing faces in Brownsville and Van Horn, respectively, the two have little in common.
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