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Blue origin is aimed at competing with Virgin for the 'joy ride' suborbital market, whereas Spacex is a heavy lift orbital payload project with a contract to deliver to orbit. Totally different vehicles. SpaceX uses 100 times the energy of Blue Origin to loft payloads to orbit - a far more serious craft and the pre-cursor for eventual Mars missions if you listen to Musk. This does not dimish Blue Origin's success but remember SpaceX landed theirs on a barge in the ocean early this year, only to have it topple over as it ran out of fuel a couple of feet above the shutdown point. It made the barge upright, a big feat in itself.
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