>>10489270You do realize Blue Origin is actually older than SpaceX right?
Dummy boys will argue that they haven't been seriously funded for as long, but SpaceX accomplished orbital flight on a literal shoestring budget, earned a couple big NASA contracts that kept them going and let them develop Falcon 9, and turned themselves into a lucrative business.
BO on the other hand pretty much wasted their time mucking around with a kerosene-powered suborbital vehicle until they scrapped that work and built hydro-lox New Shepard instead, which is yet to actually be used for its intended purpose of suborbital tourism flights.
Boeing/SLS is a perfect example of how throwing all the money in the world at a project doesn't get anything done any faster, it just lets it get done for more expense. BO is chewing through something like a billion dollars a year to develop the BE-4 engine and New Glenn rocket.
