{"id":78151,"date":"2018-04-30T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/blue-origin-is-testing-reusable-rockets-heres-why-you-rarely-see-them"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:13:06","slug":"blue-origin-is-testing-reusable-rockets-heres-why-you-rarely-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/blue-origin-is-testing-reusable-rockets-heres-why-you-rarely-see-them","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Is Testing Reusable Rockets. Here\u2019s Why You Rarely See Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-is-testing-reusable-rockets-heres-why-you-rarely-see-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rough translation: Blue Origin doesn\u2019t give a damn about SpaceX\u2019s media circus. It\u2019s not trying to outdo competitors with each subsequent project \u2014 the company is working on just two rockets (New Shepard and New Glenn) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/12\/20\/blue-origin-manned-flight-2018\/\">hopes to launch a manned flight<\/a> before the end of 2018. Blue Origin is worrying about <em>Blue Origin. <\/em>That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit too early to tell whether Blue Origin\u2019s strategy is any better than SpaceX\u2019s, or vice versa. Competition is a powerful force for innovation. But with the commercial space industry quickly growing (and SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/spacex-monopoly-competition\/\">threatening to monopolize it<\/a>), it\u2019s easy enough to keep innovating in an effort to one-up the competition, losing sight of the main goal in the process.<\/p>\n<p>One way to judge who wins? Whoever sends humans farther than they\u2019ve ever gone. In that sense, the companies are striving for the same goal in the long term, and those that keep their eyes on the prize might fare best. In her interview with <em>Engadget, <\/em>Blue Origin\u2019s Dietrich said that the company\u2019s vision of millions of people living and working in space meant that they \u201care applauding all launch operators that are building new and more capable systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/blue-origin-rockets-competition\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/blue-origin-rockets-competition\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough translation: Blue Origin doesn\u2019t give a damn about SpaceX\u2019s media circus. It\u2019s not trying to outdo competitors with each subsequent project \u2014 the company is working on just two rockets (New Shepard and New Glenn) with hopes to launch a manned flight before the end of 2018. Blue Origin is worrying about Blue Origin. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78333,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78151\/revisions\/78333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}