Honda is SpaceX’s New Competitor as Automotive Giant Successfully Launches Reusable Rocket

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1. As a former SpaceX employee, Honda was not on my bingo card for companies that would be next to do this.

2. If the guy didn’t join the nazi alt right fascist bandwagon, I wouldn’t be so mad with spaceX but now I’m glad it has a competitor that I hope will crush it

3. Definitively a surprise. Wasn’t expecting Honda to pull this one out. Congrats tho.

4. Honda coming in clutch. Them million mile + civics could have told anyone Honda could do it.

5. >_The test was completed successfully—the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly **300 metres**,’_

   Don’t get me wrong, landing it is a great achievement. But keep in mind that it basically flew lower than the height of the Tokyo tower before landing.

   It didn’t go to space.

6. Huh.

   If anyone was going to do it, I would’ve thought it would have been Mitsubishi.

   They’re into everything.