[quote]Fellow billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of rival rocket company Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, used his Twitter feed to congratulate Bezos and the Blue Origin team on the landing, a technology that SpaceX is also pursuing.
SpaceX is working to reuse rockets that are returning from the higher altitudes and faster speeds of orbital missions.
“It is ... important to clear up the difference between ‘space’ and ‘orbit’,” Musk posted on Twitter.
...vs blue origin's recent coup is comparing apples to oranges. It's a significant accomplishment but falls short of the SpaceX objective my an order of magnitude. Of course Musk and his team haven't yet succeeded so a bird in the hand ...I would be quite surprised if another company succeeds with the more difficult landing before SpaceX.
SpaceX is working to reuse rockets that are returning from the higher altitudes and faster speeds of orbital missions.
“It is ... important to clear up the difference between ‘space’ and ‘orbit’,” Musk posted on Twitter.
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imagine if every time a jet flew at the end of the flight they threw it away
although this was low orbit - it proves that concept is viable
we will now see cost of space launches plummet