Bill Gates On Billionaire Visiting Space

Latest Updated on 9 January 2023

The space race which has grown into a struggle for the ages is setting some of the richest people on the planet against one another. The two biggest people on earth Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who are the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin respectively have big goals for space. They picture a world in which everyone has access to the internet humans live with other planetary species and permanent people live on rotating space stations.

Bill Gates is not investing his wealth in these alien projects.

According to Forbes, Gates is the fourth richest person living. He believes that there are larger goals for humanity right now. Gates told CNN's Becky Anderson on Wednesday that while internet constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's Project Plan Kuiper attempt to provide for-profit solutions to the world's urgent connection needs, more fundamental issues now take up his time.

A major amount of the space race is a commercial market. Excellent internet access is needed over all of Africa. using surveillance satellites to monitor climate change and agriculture. that has no social motive at all. I sure hope that those who are wealthy will find effective methods to give their wealth back to society. They clearly have skills. They can't wish to consume it all themselves.

Last Updated on 25 September 2021

Elon Musk made headlines for space travel. Before that Jeff Bezos also traveled in space. Bill Gates gave his opinion on the billionaires going to space. During an interview with James Cordon in The Late Late Show With James Corden, Bill Gates was asked about billionaires going to space. He replied by saying that he is obsessed with diseases like Malaria and HIV.  He also said that he is not thinking about space yet as we have a lot to do on earth now. He pointed out that we still have a lot of things to do and a lot of problems to solve. It is a good sign that humans are making efforts to go beyond their limits but it is also important to pay the same amount of attention to the problems that are already there. We can’t just simply ignore them.

Bill Gates has surely made a point with this statement. The billionaire has been vocal about his interest in public health. Bill Gates has supported public health by donating hundreds of millions to combating Malaria, HIV, and the Covid-19 vaccine.