Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: whose rocket is bigger?

When it comes to rockets, people will talk about size right away. (Amazon CEO) and (CEO SpaceX) understand this, because both of these billionaires own their own universe companies.

Now Elon Musk, the airline company SpaceX, is using it to transport large quantities of goods into orbit for NASA and other companies around the world. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which is testing, is designed to send people flying to the edge of space in orbit flights.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

These two billionaires have a friendly competitive relationship in the aerospace field, often "teasing" each other's Twitter about their achievements. So do you ever wonder who the rocket is bigger?

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is nearly 52 meters higher than Blue Origin's New Shepard. Falcon 9 is 70 meters tall, while New Shepard is only about 18.3 meters tall.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is nearly 52 meters higher than Blue Origin's New Shepard.

But both missiles are "dwarfs" when compared to NASA missiles.

NASA's ever brought humans to the moon as high as 110 meters, which is nearly 30.5 meters higher than the Falcon 9. SpaceX's next big rocket is, it is scheduled to test for the first time in January 2018, just as high as Falcon 9.

However, Blue Origin is planning to build a New Glenn 3-stage rocket , which when it appears will be a formidable rival to the Saturn V, reaching nearly 95.5 meters.

Saying that, not many people actually go compared to rockets. Bezos and Musk missiles are small, but they all have their own positions and functions in the space industry.

Falcon 9 and New Shepard are two very different missiles.

Falcon 9 and New Shepard are two very different missiles. New Shepard was designed to bring customers about 100km away and drop them to Earth with an umbrella compartment.

Falcon 9 has another task: to bring goods into orbit, and one day will bring people to the ISS international space station if things go according to plan.

Both Falcon 9 and New Shepard are designed to be reused , capable of returning to Earth after bringing goods into orbit.

As a rule, larger missiles like Falcon 9 will be able to take you farther into space, put you on orbit, and bring whatever you want to post easily. And smaller missiles, like New Shepard, would be better suited to move smaller goods to orbit or space fringes.

Obviously, don't you want to waste fuel when using a huge rocket just to transport a small amount of cargo that can be carried by a smaller rocket?

For that reason, comparing rocket sizes is just a way of "cutting the wind of entertainment" only, since the size of the missile is not very important.