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China Lands a Reusable Rocket for the First Time, State Media Says
China has landed a reusable rocket for the first time, according to state media, a milestone that follows years of similar vertical landings by U.S. companies SpaceX and Blue Origin. The achievement marks a significant step in Beijing's push to lower launch costs and close the gap with American commercial spaceflight, intensifying a new era of great-power competition beyond the atmosphere.
Read Full Story at BBC WorldCome, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves.
— Genesis 11:4
Human ambition has always reached upward. The rockets are new; the impulse to build toward the sky and make a name is as old as Babel.
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