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| SpaceX makes history by ''catching'' Megarocket booster post-test flight |
| 2024-10-14 |
| [GEO.TV] SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company's quest for rapid reusability. The "super heavy booster" had blasted off attached to the Starship rocket minutes earlier, then made a picture-perfect controlled return to the same pad in Texas, where a pair of huge mechanical "chopsticks" reached out from the launch tower to bring the slowly descending booster to a halt, according to a livestream from Elon Musk's SpaceX company. "Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books," a SpaceX spokesperson said in a voiceover on the company's livestream, after the booster was safely in the tower's grasp and company staffers had erupted in cheers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 All right Beavis! Note to self - check comments. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-10-14 14:15 |
| #7 Going around the webs: Space X:"We're shootin' off big ass rockets and snatching 'em out of the sky with these crazy metal chopsticks. NASA: "We're looking into why air is racist." |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-10-14 14:14 |
| #6 Pretty impressive! How come you never read about stuff like this happening in Wakanda? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-10-14 13:27 |
| #4 even a year ago I didn't think this was possible |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-10-14 09:47 |
| #3 Didn't I read that the payload sank when it tried to land? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-10-14 09:08 |
| #2 Somewhere, Robert Heinlein smiles. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-10-14 01:16 |
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| Posted by: badanov 2024-10-14 01:14 |