Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon

Elon Musk's Space X has launched a rocket carrying two lunar landers, which took off into space this morning (15 January). Blue Ghost and Resilience, built by private companies in the US and Japan, left Earth aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. ET (6:11 GMT).

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, waved off an attempt to launch its first orbital rocket. Blue Origin said engineers worked to troubleshoot an issue with the rocket but could not resolve the problem in time.

SpaceX successfully launched two spacecraft, Blue Ghost and Resilience landers, on a mission to the Moon from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The mission aims to advance lunar exploration with experiments on subsurface drilling,

In recent years, Space X has been a clear winner in space tech, even managing to catch a booster for the most powerful rocket ever built on a pair of ‘chopsticks’ last year, and stepping in to rescue two astronauts still stranded in space after the Boeing Starliner which carried them there was deemed not safe enough to take them home.

Disruption from increasing rocket launches is becoming a growing issue for commercial airlines

Elon Musk likened his apparent reunion with Jeff Bezos to the enemy-to-brother storyline in the Will Ferrell film “Step Brothers.”

Are arch rivals Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos becoming friends? In a rare bonhomie, SpaceX's Elon Musk and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos exchanged praise and humour after their latest space missions. Both Musk and Bezos have been at loggerheads for years and recently the former was seen druming up his friendship with Amazon founder amid the tight space race.