“When discussing Blue Origin, it’s almost impossible not to compare the company to SpaceX, which also has a prominent billionaire founder, Elon Musk. Bezos’ comments about being decisive are striking because that is one of the secrets to SpaceX’s success.”
This is ridiculous. We should be methodical about space. These capitalists racing each other in a literal dick shaped rocket measuring contest are going to race their way into the first moon colony transport killing everyone on board, not that they care.
The publically funded NASA model is better in every way… If we had bothered to fund it. Had to cut these rich fuck’s taxes though, amirite?
They’re working on commercial products, too, like New Glenn and Blue Ring. They’re also supposedly working on a reusable upper stage and a crew capsule. They’ve been developing at a pace more like ULA (Vulcan) or Boeing (Starliner) instead of Rocket Lab or SpaceX. The SpaceX approach with Dragon has been pretty well praised. Their development phase with Falcon landings and now Starship test flights harkens back to the early days of spaceflight instead of the slow and steady and not necessarily safer process that has become too common.