> It clearly is a sensible platform as it looks like the Chinese have built a similar thing Don't be too confident in that statement. The Russians built a copy

> It clearly is a sensible platform as it looks like the Chinese have built a similar thing Don't be too confident in that statement. The Russians built a copy of the space shuttle despite the inherent unreasonableness of that platform. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)