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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by nimithryn on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:37PM (#27898242)
The US was behind the USSR at the beginning of the last space race. Jeff Bezos is an extremely smart and talented guy, and is now focusing a lot more of his time on Blue Origin. I wouldn't count them out.
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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by ranman on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:52PM (#27898417)
Blue Origin technically started before SpaceX and has an increasing delta in accomplishments... They're easily a decade plus behind and SpaceX doesn't seem to be slowing down.

Bezos is smart and talented... but it's hard to overcome a lead like that.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by iso1631 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:26AM (#27903768)
And the US was behind Russia at the end of the last space race, as Americans had to take Russian rockets to even get to orbit
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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by ragebol on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:23AM (#27903326)
Bezos is a businessman, rockets require engineering.

Sure, he studied electrical engineering in the 80s, but I don't think that's going to help Blue Origin catch up with it's main competitor.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by nimithryn on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:08AM (#27907331)
Bezos can hire engineers to work for him. Amazon requires lots of engineers and that works fine.

Bezos’s big contributions will be leadership, creating efficient processes, etc. He’s good at those things. You don’t need to be able to build the product to run a company.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by ragebol on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:22PM (#27908290)
Then why hasn't he done so earlier?
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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by nimithryn on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:17PM (#27912882)
Because he was busy being CEO of Amazon, one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Now he will spend most of his time on Blue Origin.
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