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yesterday. Jeff Bezos' comapny Blue Origin was able to launch a rocket into space and land it back on Earth in one piece. In effect it was the first successful test of a reusable rocket. Elon Musk (of Tesla fame) has been working on doing this at his company SpaceX for a while and are getting very close, but Bezos beat him to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pillaOxGCo
The impications are quite significant, as reliable reusable rockets will cut the cost of space travel by several orders of magnitude. It is the first step in making a commercial trip to Mars economically feasible .Musk estimates a ticket price of about US$500K as what it will take for a Mars "cruise" to be affordable enough.
Hopefully these two well accomplished billionares will get into a pi$$iing contest and continue to drive innovation forward. The Cold War era space race to the moon is responsible for the development of many of the technologies we use as consumers today. Another space race, in the private sector this time, could provide the breakthrough needed to once again go where no man has gone before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pillaOxGCo
The impications are quite significant, as reliable reusable rockets will cut the cost of space travel by several orders of magnitude. It is the first step in making a commercial trip to Mars economically feasible .Musk estimates a ticket price of about US$500K as what it will take for a Mars "cruise" to be affordable enough.
Hopefully these two well accomplished billionares will get into a pi$$iing contest and continue to drive innovation forward. The Cold War era space race to the moon is responsible for the development of many of the technologies we use as consumers today. Another space race, in the private sector this time, could provide the breakthrough needed to once again go where no man has gone before.
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