> I mean Blue Origin has been running for 20 years and the best we have from them is flights that were accomplished in the Cold War?
Blue Origin's is reusable. That's a huge difference.
Blue Origin's is reusable. That's a huge difference.
Also, since SpaceX did it already, in less time, should others just close the shop and not try to do the same?
C'mon. Blue Origin has a proper rocket, it seems very capable. They even land the booster like SpaceX does. To be unimpressed with their achievements seems like sour grapes.
Carlin says something similar to what I was going to say, but he's better at saying it.
" The phrase sour grapes does not refer to jealousy or envy. Nor is it related to being a sore loser. It deals with the rationalization of failure to attain a desired end. In the original fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Grapes," when the fox realizes he cannot leap high enough to reach the grapes, he rationalizes that even if he had gotten them, they would probably have been sour anyway. Rationalization, that’s all sour grapes means. It doesn’t mean deal with jealousy or sore losing. Yeah, I know you say, "Well many people are using it that way, so the meaning is changing." And I say, "Well many people are really fuckin’ stupid too, shall we just adopt all their standards?" " [0]
- George Carlin
Blue origin landed it's first rocket in 2005. It was a tiny rocket and a tiny flight and purely for testing.
SpaceX landed it's first rocket in 2015. It was an orbital flight delivering real value.
Would it have made sense for SpaceX to stop because blue origin already flew a reusable rocket?