Space Titans review – Bezos, Musk and Branson battle to blast their loads

This wildly hagiographic documentary about the billionaires fiddling with their massive rockets will have you cringing all the way into suborbital space

For a documentary created with the Washington Post, a newspaper owned by a company controlled by Jeff Bezos, the new Discovery+ special Space Titans has an impressive amount of Elon Musk in it. Maybe the algorithm doesn't dictate everything quite yet. Or maybe it's an oversight that is even now causing heads to roll in the corridors of Nash Holdings LLC before they are boxed up and sent by Prime to the homes of their former loved ones. We will never know, I suppose, unless Bezos chooses to tell us.

Space Titans tells the story of the three billionaires - Bezos, Musk and, uh, Richard Branson - competing to see who has the biggest penis (I'm sorry: competing to see who can be the first to make space travel for ordinary citizens and colonisation of other planets a reality). We are told - repeatedly - that we are at an inflection point in space exploration. Billionaires are going to boldly go where no one has gone before. Because they have all the money now.