While space billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos routinely find themselves squaring off in what’s become this generation’s space race, there’s one US senator who’s keen on keeping their intergalactic exploration tethered to this stratosphere, or at least ensuring that it’s not financed at the American taxpayers’ expense.
Sen Bernie Sanders, who’s public scorn of billionaires has become a staple of his policies addressing wealth distribution and reining in corporate influence, continued to champion this cause Wednesday night during a speech on the House floor where he criticised a spending bill that includes a provision to send $10 billion to NASA for private contractors, like Bezos’s Blue Origin or Musk’s SpaceX, to land on the moon.
