> You could argue that Blue Origin just did the hard part that SpaceX hasn't been able to do. You missed one critical difference. New Shepard (and Grasshopper)

> You could argue that Blue Origin just did the hard part that SpaceX hasn't been able to do. You missed one critical difference. New Shepard (and Grasshopper) can hover. The fact that Falcon 9 (during its landing phase) has a thrust-to-weight ratio > 1 means that their "hard part" is _much_ harder than New Shepard's "hard part".