New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight
Elon's reaction (quoted from Twitter):"Congrats to Jeff Bezos and the BO team for achieving VTOL on their boosterIt is, however, important to clear up the difference between "space" and "orbit", as described well by https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit."