In its Oct. 13 fifth Starship test flight, Elon Musk’s SpaceX safely returned its towering 233 foot-tall first stage “Super Heavy” booster back to its launch tower, employing only two giant “chop sticks” . . . mechanical arms . . . to guide that impressive landing.
As Musk delightedly wrote on X, “The Tower caught the rocket!”
Elon also commented that “A big step towards making life multiplanetary was made today.”
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