The problem that SpaceX has is that Blue Origin did it first. Even if the technical challenges were larger for SpaceX then Blue Origin.<p>In the mind of the general public that cares, it&#x27;s all the same thing. The technicalities of a suborbital flight of a small capsule verses an orbital flight carrying a payload is meaningless. They just saw the Blue Origin rocket do it, and then the SpaceX rocket do it, and they looked about the same.