> Nobody had landed a rocket that way before SpaceX and Blue Origin did it. Let's not give SpaceX accomplishments that weren't actually theirs - it makes it ea

> Nobody had landed a rocket that way before SpaceX and Blue Origin did it. Let's not give SpaceX accomplishments that weren't actually theirs - it makes it easier to dismiss everything else they're doing. The DC-X did this (as a sub-scale SSTO demonstrator) in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X