But the critical function for both concepts is re-usability, with a reasonably fast turn-around. Going to orbit with payload is no doubt hard, but has been don

But the critical function for both concepts is re-usability, with a reasonably fast turn-around. Going to orbit with payload is no doubt hard, but has been done by 11 countries, not counting that within the USA multiple manufacturers have build rockets for NASA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_orbital_launches_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_orbital_laun...) Re-usable rockets had never been done before (except perhaps the Space Shuttle, although a different concept). This is the 0->1, and now Blue Origin can work at incrementally flying higher with larger payloads. Certainly not to take away from what Space-X has done - they've set many records themselves and operating commercial launches, which BO looks to still need time to do.