Bezos Beats Musk
In the battle to create a reusable rocket, Jeff Bezos has just dealt Elon Musk’s SpaceX a significant and unexpected blow.
Blue Origin, the Amazon founder’s private space firm, has successfully flown its New Shepard ship to space, before landing it at a launch site in Texas.
Elon Musk has so far tried, and failed, to land his Falcon rocket on a specially-built barge, with his craft tipping over or crashing on impact.
Three billionaires – Musk, Bezos and Richard Branson – have entered the space arena in recent years and the race is on to create reusable rockets that could be used for space tourism as well as future scientific missions.
Blue Origin confirmed its New Shepard vehicle reached its planned test altitude of 329,839ft (101km) before landing again earlier today.
The only visible damage to the rocket is scorched metal at its base.
Following the successful launch, Bezos tweeted: ‘Now safely tucked away at our launch site in West Texas is the rarest of beasts – a used rocket’.
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