A team from Europe has proposed a rocket that is similarly sized to the Starship, but with a winged booster that can glide and be caught mid-air. Germany's Aerospace Center (DLR) published a paper in May 2025 proposing a more efficient European version of SpaceX's Starship rocket, with the concept called the RLV C5. The team from DLR studied SpaceX's publicly available data and provided a uniq... [4143 chars]