Jeff Bezos lines up a customer for Blue Origin rocket company.

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…[Blue Origin] finally has its first paying customer as it ramps up to become a full-fledged business.

Mr. Bezos announced that customer, the satellite television provider Eutelsat, on Tuesday. In about five years, Eutelsat, which is based in Paris, will strap one of its satellites to a new Blue Origin rocket to be delivered to space, a process it has done dozens of times with other space partners.

Looks like Bezos and Musk are playing ’19th century dueling industrialists’ again.  I forget who noted this first – I know that the idea doesn’t originate with me – but there really does seem to be a theme here that evokes Carnegie versus Rockefeller.  Those two seem determined to beat each other out for bragging rights on who gets to be first with a viable commercial space program; Musk is ahead on points, but Bezos is relentless.

All I can say is: more popcorn? – Because I don’t mind at all that they’re fighting over which is the bigger space nerd.  Whoever wins, the rest of us come out ahead.