I'm not sure how leaving the rest of the booster would make a propulsive landing easier. It seems like more complexity than just leaving some fuel in the tank,

I'm not sure how leaving the rest of the booster would make a propulsive landing easier. It seems like more complexity than just leaving some fuel in the tank, for less benefit. But ULA's Vulcan (which incidentally uses the same BE-4 engine as New Glenn) plans on using a helicopter to catch it's engines as they parachute down [1] [1] https://www.planetary.org/space-images/smart https://www.planetary.org/space-images/smart