This was the first time any company besides SpaceX has propulsively landed an orbital-class rocket booster, coming nearly 10 years after SpaceX recovered its first Falcon 9 booster intact in December 2015.
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Up next they can try to reuse it!
SpaceX got gold and silver, but congrats to Blue on bronze. It's also cool that there might be a handful of other companies trying to land soon, between Neutron, Terran-R, Nova, Zhuque-3...
Great achievement for Blue Origin, another step towards Mars exploration!
I haven't heard of any Blue Origin Mars ambitions, but this is a necessary step for their moon plans. Their next New Glenn launch might be a cargo lander to the Moon.