Tim Dodd

weighs 20 tons, even empty, and it's coming back down and has lightest engines at the perfect moment to be able to preserve and use as little fuel as possible.

If you light them too, and the crazy thing is the thrust weight, it has nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9, that's why it's called Falcon 9.

And even with one engine at its minimum throttle setting, which is 40% throttle, 38%-ish, 40%, even at that minimum throttle, it can't hover, has too much thrust to hover.

So picture this.

So picture coming back in and it lights this engine.

Let's say it lights this engine five seconds too early.

It'll stop above the ground.

And because it can't go any lower throttle, it'll actually start going back up.

Just with one engine.

Just with one engine at 40%.

So them trying to master this like they have proves that they have this thing nailed down.

Right.

So they have it's been so game changing that it's it's taken.

So just literally last November, Blue Origin was the second company to land an orbital class booster almost 10 months to the or 10 years to the day since SpaceX first did it.

That's how far ahead SpaceX has been with landing and reusing rockets.

They were 10 years ahead of their next closest competitor.

That's bonkers.

So, so everyone wants this.

Everyone wants to reuse their rockets because why would you build, you know, millions of dollars of hardware, billions of dollars of hardware and then just throw it away.

So 1955.