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Well, he didn’t use Medium.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos took to Twitter for the first time on Tuesday morning to celebrate a successful rocket landing by his other company, Blue Origin. Why is this important? If “reusable” rockets become the norm, it would cost a lot less to get people (or stuff) into space. Blue Origin plans to eventually propel people toward space.
Here’s the video:
Here’s the tweet:
https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/669111829205938177
The event also means Blue Origin has accomplished a rocket landing ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, though Engadget explains why SpaceX’s efforts are “more daunting.”
Update: Leave it to Musk to Musk-plain the difference between what Blue Origin and SpaceX aim to accomplish:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669129347555430400
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669129655597731841
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669131093379956736
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.