China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX's Starship Rocket

China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX's Starship Rocket

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ushered in a new era, offering a fully reusable launch platform that brought outer space closer than ever by dramatically lowering the costs of sending payloads — and eventually astronauts — into orbit. Now Elon Musk’s space corporation has even more to prove when it comes to its Starship, a gargantuan super heavy lift rocket and booster duo that’s still deep in the development phase. Following over a dozen major explosi…