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Hopefully, but it's early days. Only SpaceX have achieved much yet. Boeing and Blue Origin aren't doing great (yet?). Hopefully Boeing Starliner can start shi

Hopefully, but it's early days. Only SpaceX have achieved much yet. Boeing and Blue Origin aren't doing great (yet?). Hopefully Boeing Starliner can start shipping astronauts to, and more importantly, from the ISS. Hopefully Blue Origina can fly, eventually.

_joel 2y ago
There's a bunch more companies, Sierra Space with Dreamchaser, a space plane that will dock with ISS or whatever replaces it. But there's Gravity, Rocket Lab, Astra, Relativity, Stoke etc. It's never been such a vibrant sector.
smegger001 2y ago
Blue Origin seems to be a vanity project for Bezos. While he seems to be taking it more seriously than Branson does Virgin galactic, he hasn't seemed to try all that hard to make as serious a competitor as Elon has with SpaceX. Elon wants SpaceX to be more than just a glorified suborbital tour-bus and is making actual progress on commercially exploiting space for more than taking millionaires and celebrities up to see freefall for a few seconds. Boeing... well Boieng is lucky if their planes don't fall apart on take off or fly themselves into the ground this decade and their spacecraft show early signs of being victim of the same systemic issues from Boeings cost saving measures like not bothering to test their shit properly first or attach all of the nuts a bolts that are supposed to be there, or make vehicles that don't autopilot straight down unless you buy the deluxe package
- marcusverus 2y ago
  I'm not sure that's a fair assessment of Blue Origin. You seem to be ignoring New Glenn, their heavy lift vehicle with a reusable first stage, which will be the first non-SpaceX offering of a reusable vehicle. It may launch this year! Bezos' only mistake, as far as I can tell, is trusting his old space experts as to the necessity of moving slowly and minimizing risk. Still, they have made fantastic progress. Blue Origin is basically the Scotty Pippen of launch companies. It's hard to judge them objectively due to their proximity to the GOAT. If it weren't for SpaceX, they'd be the hottest company in lift tech.
- Zigurd 2y ago
  Looks serious: https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut

_joel 2y ago

There's a bunch more companies, Sierra Space with Dreamchaser, a space plane that will dock with ISS or whatever replaces it. But there's Gravity, Rocket Lab, Astra, Relativity, Stoke etc. It's never been such a vibrant sector.

smegger001 2y ago

Blue Origin seems to be a vanity project for Bezos. While he seems to be taking it more seriously than Branson does Virgin galactic, he hasn't seemed to try all that hard to make as serious a competitor as Elon has with SpaceX. Elon wants SpaceX to be more than just a glorified suborbital tour-bus and is making actual progress on commercially exploiting space for more than taking millionaires and celebrities up to see freefall for a few seconds. Boeing... well Boieng is lucky if their planes don't fall apart on take off or fly themselves into the ground this decade and their spacecraft show early signs of being victim of the same systemic issues from Boeings cost saving measures like not bothering to test their shit properly first or attach all of the nuts a bolts that are supposed to be there, or make vehicles that don't autopilot straight down unless you buy the deluxe package

marcusverus 2y ago
I'm not sure that's a fair assessment of Blue Origin. You seem to be ignoring New Glenn, their heavy lift vehicle with a reusable first stage, which will be the first non-SpaceX offering of a reusable vehicle. It may launch this year! Bezos' only mistake, as far as I can tell, is trusting his old space experts as to the necessity of moving slowly and minimizing risk. Still, they have made fantastic progress. Blue Origin is basically the Scotty Pippen of launch companies. It's hard to judge them objectively due to their proximity to the GOAT. If it weren't for SpaceX, they'd be the hottest company in lift tech.
Zigurd 2y ago
Looks serious: https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut