Two successful commercial space launch companies with reusable first stages, that is. Blue Origin gets one off of and back onto the ground in one piece: Video at the BBC It's short, under two minutes. Go and watch the whole thing.
Congrats to Blue Origin! This is very good news. SpaceX was the first, but with them there was only one company with this capability. One is a special number because it shows that a thing can be done. However, it's also only one corporate failure away from none. With two, we have some redundancy. I'm reasonably sure that companies three and four are about to spring into the spotlight. Exciting times!
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