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How serious of an effort did Northrop and Lockheed put in though?

Blue Origin isn't really a serious contender, and has very few actual flights under their belt. I have no idea, but I'd think the other two companies probably were mostly a "consultancy" role to provide clout behind BO.

It's pretty perplexing BO would take point on such a major undertaking given their vast lack of experience.



What actual flights? Not the New Shepard? That's a suborbital rocket. They haven't gone to space yet!


I kind of think that they put their name in there just to try to make life hard for SpaceX. Basically throwing in their lot with anybody but Elon.




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