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A third nation lands an orbital booster on legs
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China's LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 booster on legs, only the third entity to manage that, as a Starship flight was guided in after 24 days adrift and one builder noted that capping space's share of GDP is as quaint as 1600s economists capping the New World.
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