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Interesting, yes; however in tech, products, partnerships, experience or any other quantifiable measure, Blue Origin is far, far behind SpaceX. SpaceX has laun
by JanSolo 8y ago
Interesting, yes; however in tech, products, partnerships, experience or any other quantifiable measure, Blue Origin is far, far behind SpaceX.
SpaceX has launched many Orbital missions.
Blue Origin has launched none.
SpaceX has two functional, tested, orbital spacecraft in production.
Blue Origin has a sub-orbital pod with goldfishbowl windows that's not quite ready yet.
SpaceX has successfully partnered with NASA for commercial cargo missions to the ISS.
Blue Origin has not.
SpaceX has landed more than a dozen rockets post-flight.
Blue Origin has landed < 10 sub-orbital rockets.
SpaceX has designs for rockets and spacecraft that might plausibly target inter-planetary travel.
Blue Origin has not gotten to orbit yet.
Don't get me wrong; I want Blue Origin to succeed. However, the slope of their progress graph has been much shallower than SpaceXs. I don't see them ever catching or overtaking SpaceX unless something drastically unforseen happens.
- tristanb 8y agoSpaceX has landed more than a dozen rockets post-flight. - Its 20 (5 failed)