[jacquesm]

Sorry, but it really isn't. Who knows what SpaceX will achieve in the next couple of years but let's not belittle the Apollo 11 achievement, given the time it was done in, the resources it took and the state of technology back then it was an absolutely amazing achievement, way ahead of what SpaceX has achieved to date.

But the future isn't quite over yet and SpaceX has one advantage, they are moving whereas Apollo 11 is frozen in time.

Calling SpaceX 'better than Apollo 11' indicates a poor understanding of the situation back then. Apollo 11 was a milestone, reusable rockets is also a milestone, but a completely different one.

I'm wondering how the author would have looked at SpaceX had the situation been reversed, in case Apollo 11 would have been the mission that allowed NASA to launch a rocket to a good bit of orbital velocity and then to capture it for re-use and SpaceX would have put a man on the moon last week. Would they still feel that the SpaceX achievement was the smaller one?