About this time.

大約在這個時候。

It's not America versus Russia.

這不是美國對俄羅斯。

It's the world's two richest men going toe to toe, Industry sources say Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to focus more on his blue origin rocket business with a view to putting progress into hyper drive.

這是世界兩大首富的對決，業內人士表示，亞馬遜創始人傑夫-貝佐斯將更多地關注他的藍色起源火箭業務，以期將進步推向超速發展。

A space launch company has fallen far behind competitors.

一家航天發射公司已經遠遠落後於競爭對手。

Space X.

Space X.

It's run by archrival Elon Musk, now the only man richer than Bezos ignition.

它的運營者是宿敵埃隆-馬斯克，現在唯一一個比貝佐斯點火更富有的人。

Let's Blue Origin was beaten to billions of dollars in U.

讓我們的藍色原點在美國被打到數十億的美元。

S.

S.

Contracts by the Tesla founders firm.

特斯拉創始人公司的合同。

Now Bezos may have the time to change that.

現在，貝佐斯或許有時機改變這種狀況。

Last week, he said he was stepping down as boss off the online giant to focus on personal projects.

上週，他說他將辭去網絡巨頭的老闆職務，專注於個人項目。

That's sure to include blue origin, which he has called his most important work.

這其中肯定包括被他稱為最重要作品的藍色起源。

Bezos has Bean liquidating a billion dollars off his Amazon stock every year to fund the project.

貝佐斯每年都會嵛，嵛嵛從他的亞馬遜股票上清算出10億美元來資助這個項目。

Now the focus is NASA's planned return to the moon.

現在的焦點是美國宇航局的重返月球計劃。

Blue Origin hopes the space agency will choose its design for a lunar lander.

藍色起源公司希望航天局能選擇其設計的月球著陸器。

Winning is seen as critical to the firm's credibility and its prospects for eventual profitability.

贏利被視為對公司的信譽和最終盈利前景至關重要。

But time is tight with a NASA due to winnow the list off possible contractors down to two by the end of April.

但時間緊迫，NASA由於要在4月底前將可能的承包商名單縮減到兩個。

Whatever happens in the longer term, Bezos is thinking bigger, way bigger.

無論長期發生什麼，貝佐斯都會想得更大，更遠。

So my long term prediction and this is gonna take hundreds of years.

所以我的長期預測，這需要幾百年的時間。

So don't worry.

所以不用擔心。

Prematurely, Earth will end up being zoned residential and light industry on Do all the heavy industry will be done in space.

過早地，地球最終會被劃為住宅，輕工業上做所有的重工業將在太空中完成。

That is for the future, though.

不過，這是未來的事。

Right now there is a space race to be won, and neither Jeff Bezos nor Elon Musk is known to enjoy coming second.

眼下，太空競賽勢在必得，眾所周知，傑夫-貝佐斯和埃隆-馬斯克都不喜歡屈居第二。