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You can continue to down vote me, but none of these examples went into 'space'. Also I reiterate my point, that the average person is not going to know or care
by Trisell 11y ago
You can continue to down vote me, but none of these examples went into 'space'. Also I reiterate my point, that the average person is not going to know or care that grasshopper went up and down 2440 ft in 2013. Or that others had a rocket that went up a few hundred feet and then landed in 1993. They will remember that Blue Origin just did this and that SpaceX did it second.
- fvdfogi 11y agoYou still haven't described what exactly Blue Origin did first, that is so important.
- ErrantX 11y agoI'm not a SpaceX fan boy, and I am happy Blue Origin is contributing to this space too. However; going straight up and then coming back down is no major challenge. It doesn't impart anything extra to the test. The novel and hard part is the landing. It's quite a shame that Bezos (and Musk, I guess) felt he had to treat it like a competition when actually both are doing cool and hard things. That said; SpaceX are clearly some way ahead, in that they (rightly) focused on getting stuff to space whilst heading toward the landing tech.