I'm John Bachelor, January 2026. Write it down. Blue Origin begins to look like a company that has

ambitions. I welcome Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black. Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos.

Quite separate from Amazon's constellation of satellites for a communication system.

The Blue Origin people are building very good rockets,

New Glenn, for example. But they're slow. They're the tortoise. The hair over here,

much to say about SpaceX, but we're looking right now at the tortoise. And the tortoise is

rumbling into shape, begins to look promising, although slow.

Bob, what is the significance of a reusable booster, Blue Origin? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, it's the same significance as the reusable Falcon 9 at SpaceX. It lowers

the cost. It makes it possible to launch a lot more frequently. It basically makes it possible for the human race to settle the stars.

And Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's company, has been promising that its new Glenn rocket would be a reusable rocket like the Falcon 9.

It's been making this promise the same amount of time that SpaceX has been promising the Falcon 9.

Both rockets were proposed at almost the exact same time back in the aughts two decades ago.

SpaceX got it built, got it launched, has been flying it, we're using the first stages now

for a decade, has dropped and reused first stages to think something like 600 times.

Blue Origin, as you say, is slow.

They only successfully launched New Glenn for the first time last year.

And they did it twice last year, which was good.

They started to make progress.

And on the second launch, they did something spectacular and good.

They landed the first stage on their barge out a landing platform out in the Atlantic.

And so they were able to land that first stage.

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