OR Blue Origin He sent six women in space, recording in history the first time an exclusively female crew made the trip, since the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina tereshkova completed a three -day solo mission six decades ago.

A women’s flight was involved in a pop star, a television journalist, an aerospace engineer, a film producer and a biomass researcher who became an activist. The spaceship was also the Lauren Sanchezbusinessman, journalist, writer, philanthropist and fiancee of Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world and founder of Blue Origin.

The excursion triggered an intense discussion about whether the 11 -minute flight was a brave demonstration of feminism or a significant advertising gulf.

However, while women in a rocket dominated the news, people who are really trying to conquer space are billionaires.

There is of course the founder and executive president of Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezoswho sees the expansion of mankind beyond the earth as a way of escaping a “stagnant culture” and the boundaries of the limited resources of the Earth. Ilon Musk wants to colonize Mars and turn people into a multicultural species through SpaceX’s company. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic also wants to conquer space, but for … tourist reasons.

The billionaires who are promoting their investment in space is growing. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently bought a share of the Relactivity Space. She is also now heading for Startup, which aims to compete with Spacex. And the billionaire encryption Jed mccalebwhich was behind the Bitcoin Mt. Gox, is trying to build the first commercial space station in the world. “People need a new border,” told Bloomberg News last month.

Why are some of the richest men in the world so obsessed with space? In 2021, when Bezos and the Branson They were aboard their respective rockets by nine days, Salon.com pointed out the correlation between wealth and desire to conquer the space. “Are they bored the earth? Or is it a symbolic, male play of power, a depiction of their sovereignty? ” The author Nicole Carlis asked.

A psychologist told her that wealth and power can make a person associate with the world in a more self -centered way – that life in a privilege cocoon makes it harder to see what is going on around him.

But in 2025, some of the extremely rich seem to be aware of what is happening here, on this planet: growing social and political turmoil, growing income inequality, climate change and extreme weather, geopolitical uncertainty and constant possibility. To prepare for this, they build warehouses deep on the ground. They explore the possibility of colonizing the sea. And instead of investing most of their resources to make life here, they are planning an exit strategy that will ultimately push those who have the financial capacity in space.

While billionaires may present their achievements as a promotion of humanity and science, their ventures are also another way to make money in a relatively new and unmistakable arena of interest. But high promises of space access to everyone are better messages than the reality of start -ups of rockets earning from state contracts. In a real move for the press, Blue Origin has gained more attention and excitement in designing flight costumes with its female range than for the nearly $ 2.4 billion given this month by the Ministry of Defense.

Super rich who have riding their own rockets have returned to Earth Talking about the beauty and fragility of the planet in which we live. But he says a lot about how disconnected he is from life to Earth, if a journey is needed at the edge of space to realize it.