<story><title>A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/a-new-book-amazon-unbound-reveals-jeff-bezos-envy-of-spacex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they&amp;#x27;ve got an engine developed (BE-4) that&amp;#x27;s pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Veedrac</author><text>People have a really weird idea of the timelines here. Blue Origin&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;first&lt;/i&gt; serious rocket was New Shepard, launched in 2015. It has been six years since then, and New Glenn, a rocket more ambitious than SLS or Vulcan Centaur or even Falcon 9, is due in under two years. The rocket has been delayed, but only by two years, which is typical for rockets of any sort, even SpaceX rockets.&lt;p&gt;This is not a weirdly slow pace.&lt;p&gt;The reason Blue Origin is behind SpaceX is that SpaceX built their first serious rocket in 2006, 9 years before New Shepard. Blue Origin was founded a long time ago but they spent most of that as a low-budget think-tank style operation.&lt;p&gt;Timeline: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;BlueOrigin&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;n6a1dd&amp;#x2F;sn15_nails_the_landing_amazing_moment_for_all&amp;#x2F;gx9ngem&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;BlueOrigin&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;n6a1dd&amp;#x2F;sn15_nai...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/a-new-book-amazon-unbound-reveals-jeff-bezos-envy-of-spacex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they&amp;#x27;ve got an engine developed (BE-4) that&amp;#x27;s pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisporter</author><text>Eric Berger has an article on this. He is definitely a big spacex fan but does fairly objective reporting imo. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;so-what-really-happened-with-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;so-what-really-happe...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>