Finally some real competition for SpaceX?
Amid all the excitement of the last while I wanted to highlight one bit of good news. Last week a bunch of stuff happened with regard to space launches. Some bad as well with SpaceX's Starship exploded spectacularly (seriously watch if you haven't seen it). They're still sort of supposed to be exploding at this point in testing but it exploded much earlier than expected and the danger of debris meant some flights had to be diverted. But we had a c ouple more landers heading off to the Moon. We had a fun r e-entry science mission . And we had Blue Origin's long awaited New Glenn launched for the first time and get right to its target orbit. Blue Origin is a company that actually started slightly earlier than SpaceX but never had the other's sense of urgency. Instead its motto has been “Gradatim ferociter” or "step by step, ferociously" with turtles reaching towards space on the original logo. The company had spent a ...