But the critical function for both concepts is re-usability, with a reasonably fast turn-around.<p>Going to orbit with payload is no doubt hard, but has been done by 11 countries, not counting that within the USA multiple manufacturers have build rockets for NASA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_first_orbital_launches_by_country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_first_orbital_laun...</a>)<p>Re-usable rockets had never been done before (except perhaps the Space Shuttle, although a different concept). This is the 0-&gt;1, and now Blue Origin can work at incrementally flying higher with larger payloads.<p>Certainly not to take away from what Space-X has done - they&#x27;ve set many records themselves and operating commercial launches, which BO looks to still need time to do.