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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by paraboul on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:48PM (#10622247)
SpaceX already achieved suborbital VTOL in 2013 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t15vP1PyoA&app=desktop
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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by chillingeffect on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @04:01PM (#10623658)
Not that I have any skin in the game - I think Musk and Bezos are both insufferable billionaire jerks, scamming taxpayers and working the lower class to death - but Grasshopper went to 250m, while Blue Origin went to 100km.
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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by baq on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @05:13PM (#10623945)
it's not that much of a difference, going almost straight up and falling mostly straight down is a matter of burning longer. it is an achievement, it's just not useful for much (for the price) and overengineered at that. if it actually went to orbit and didn't come back, it'd be a bigger thing.
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