Blue Origin, set up by fellow billionaire tech CEO Jeff Bezos in West Texas, stole SpaceX's thunder in November last year. While Elon Musk was busy trying to shoot rocket ships into orbit and then land them on boats, Bezos took the easier route of launching its New Shepard rocket on a suborbital flight and then landing it back on dry land.
It worked.
And in the process, it set off a real race to space.
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