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> They're the only ones who have rockets that land. Blue origin also vertically land (and the Shuttle also landed)
by kuu 4y ago
> They're the only ones who have rockets that land.
Blue origin also vertically land (and the Shuttle also landed)
- jve 4y agoNot to take away from Blue origin, but orbital class rocket booster landing is different and much harder than going up, hovering and going down.
- tehbeard 4y agoOne of those is sub orbital still afaik, the other is a beautiful work of engineering but very much retired due to the complexities of the design and is more of a spaceplane than a rocket.
- monk_e_boy 4y agoThey had to move space down to meet Blue Origins rocket. At least SpaceX can get to orbit.
- hoseja 4y agoI can fart very hard and land back on my chair and have achieved about as much as Blue Origin.
- mlindner 4y agoRegarding Blue Origin, if you can pad the margins of your vehicles heavily because you don't need to reach orbit, then it's a lot easier to make a vehicle reusable. This is why Scaled Composites could relatively easily throw together a vehicle that could perform this back in 2004.