You are making some really silly assumptions that are common amongst laymen in spaceflight. > They are utterly crushing all competition in terms of price and l

You are making some really silly assumptions that are common amongst laymen in spaceflight. > They are utterly crushing all competition in terms of price and launch cadence. Launch market is not the entirety of the spaceflight industry. "The share of launch vehicles is as small as 4 percent of the overall market of space services." - Dmitry Rogozin And Blue Origin can do propulsive landing like SpaceX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRs2gMyLLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRs2gMyLLk Propulsive landing has been around for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cjZTCay24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cjZTCay24 Whilst it seems (and is!) very cool to see the boosters land, it seems to impress the laymen a lot more than the true technical worth of the feat. Here's an addon to the Orbiter spaceflight simulator with recoverable falcon 9 stages: https://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=7091 https://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=7091 More or less requires college level kinematics at the core of the control/guidance. Also with the recent DM-2 anomaly, SpaceX is playing catch up with Blue Origin, not the other way round.