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 explosions, the rocket has yet to safely launch and return to the ground in one piece. In the meantime, users on the SpaceXLounge subreddit are less than convinced China will beat SpaceX to the punch when it comes to Starship. More on Starship: SpaceX Releases Renders of the Inside of Its Enormous Lunar Lander