Elon Musk’s Starship, the largest rocket ever created, passed a crucial stage in its development journey on Sunday after engineers successfully caught its booster on the way down.
The rocket, which SpaceX, Musk’s company, hopes will eventually take humans to Mars, is designed to be reusable.
A key step in achieving that goal was to capture the booster stage mid-air, using mechanical arms on the launchpad. These are referred to by Musk as “Mechazilla”. Eventually the hope is to catch […]
Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket booster 'caught' successfully for first time