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Clearly with Musk running the country, BO's chance of getting contracts is zero. I heard a talk today(1) that pointed out that pre-Musk was given too much pow

• oskarkk 2y ago
  Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX (in 2000). SpaceX launched their first small orbital rocket successfully in 2008, and is launching Falcon 9 since 2010. At that time Musk had no significant power and he was less wealthy than Bezos (and that was true until 2022 or something, SpaceX also makes up like half of Musk's wealth). SpaceX is in the position it's in because it's been delivering for the last 15 years. There is no "Blue Origin's demise", because they never really started delivering anything other than short up-and-down rides to the edge of space in the 25 years of their existence, until they're finally launched New Glenn last month. I believe that in the end they'll ramp up New Glenn and they'll have both commercial customers AND government customers - I don't believe Musk/Trump can/will really exclude any company from competing for government contracts. But competing with SpaceX is extremely hard, because in 2024 they launched more rockets than every other company/country in the world combined.