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Except BO isn't a competitor, really. They'd just like to be.

SpaceX wasn't a thing. They liked to be. Then they became (because of hardwork and billions of dollars in highly criticized government contracts). No one can just become a competitor out of nowhere. They need a push. I hate to see SpaceX be the only private company with internet satellites, or the only private company with access to the moon and Mars.

SpaceX, BO & Dynetics all started on the same level playing field. To act like there hasn’t been competition is kind of weird. There has been and still is competition, and we have witnessed the results. SpaceX has simply proven to be superior in every aspect. Don’t hate the player hate the game :)

Why hate the game when the best player one? Just because someone may not like the winner for whatever reason is no reason to hate the game. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk either, but I'm not going to deny that SpaceX has done very impressive things.

Blue Origin is older company than SpaceX. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 and SpaceX in 2002.

SpaceX got to orbit in 2008 without big government money 6 years after founding.

Blue Origin 20 years after founding still did not managed to get to orbit and Bezos is pushing around billion dollars a year into that company.

Blue Origin is obviously quite badly managed.

For example Rocket Lab founded in 2006 in New Zealand is a lot more successful with many orbital launches.

They are currently building human rated, 8 metric tonne class orbital reusable rocket.

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