15 thoughts on “The Latest In The Reusable Trend”

  1. I wonder if they’ll figure out how to declare their re-entry corridor a no-go zone for commercial shipping and make sure their stages land in the South China sea?

    1. How do you say “if a booster lands on you because you were in the exclusion zone, tough titty” in Mandarin?

    1. Agreed, I’m just a bit skeptical that any socialist space agency counts as competition, at least, not when there’s fair competition.

      1. It’s a given the govt. will be part of the ‘competition’ but private entities are up to the general challenge.

  5. I will never fear China until they discover free enterprise. Then and only then, will they become an economic power house that can take over the world. So, because I love America: Shhh Don’t Tell Them!

    1. Like many Iranian people are, I wouldn’t mind a Chinese population that was pro American. If China really embraced free enterprise, while there would be a period of adjustment, I think it could only be good for us.

      1. True. I find it sort of funny when everyone here starts spinning up with “China will take over the world” sort of like they did in the early 90’s with Japan. But when the Japanese economy hit a small bump in the early 90’s they fell back to centralized control and have never really recovered.

        1. To be specific, Japan went with government-led “stimulus” spending, ala You-Know-Who. With no equivalent of the Republican Party to restrain this disastrous approach, the Japanese kept at it with the results being two lost decades of sub-par economic performance, going on three. In the wake of the Chinese economic downturn perhaps the Chinese will follow suit. Confusion to the enemy.

  6. Assuming this is more or less true, any idea of where they would do development and testing, a Chinese equivalent of SpaceX’s McGregor facility?

    1. It’s China. They could do the testing in a dense suburb and write off thousands of ensuing casualties as an industrial accident.

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