SpaceX Makes History Catching Rocket on Landing

SpaceX was able to launch its Starship vehicle then caught its Super Heavy booster rocket back on the launch pad. The rocket was able to be controlled back down to Earth, where it reignited its engines to slow itself down as it came in for landing. Two arms protruding from Starship’s launch tower then “caught” the booster, as cheers and applause erupted at mission control.
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[Birkix]

Even more amazing is that this wasn't worthy of ANY mainstream media coverage!!

[stephenemery]

Wtf…why am I seeing this 12 days later that’s crazy it should be all over every tv!

[dios]

Incredible the mainstream media isn't showing this. Their hatred for Elon is laughable.

[Kyle-cwin]

This is something straight out of science fiction, congratulations to the engineers and everyone involved, truly one of the biggest leaps in space travel recently

[SuperSkandale]

literally chills down my spine. I would never have thought they would be able to do this

[itsyo]

That's what happen when a company is not bloated by paperwork and allows their engineers do their jobs

[rianhyland]

How was this not televised everywhere!? Absolutely amazing.

[amatuer]

Congratulations to the team that planned and executed this recovery 🎉

[clevelandcbi]

*Who's here because of Trump's victory
👇

[joelvannatta]

Ive never watched a video that blew my mind like this before.

[saltyyhourss]

This dude can be the real life Tony stark

[htvtc]

i see Bloomberg read people's complaints about not showing this particular footage and they listened 👏👏 well done!

[ericday]

Chuck Norris finally admitted.. I can’t do that

[sangmoon]

The boring but important test afterwards was being able to remount the booster on the launch mount and test the connector reconnecting to the booster which would in the future be used to refuel and theoretically be ready to launch again in an hour. If they can have a launch cadence like that, the cost of launching heavy payloads into space would drop dramatically making dreams of what we could do in space that died after the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions into eventual reality.

[violetmagic]

It’s awesome because instead of wasting rockets and rebuilding we can potentially reuse them multiple times, making it waaaay cheaper to go to space without having to build so many rockets, huge step here for us as a civilisation, I wish more people cared

[Nahnotyet]

Went from landing them to catching them. Super impressive

[BLKMEX]

What a time to be alive! Side note why wasn’t this blasted across every new network in America. This is a modern miracle akin to the moon landing!

[CanisoGaming]

Happy to have watched this and every past attempt they made ever since hopper Live. Such a spectacular show every time, even with the explosions haha

[NickWeissMusic]

That was a gentle entry if I’ve ever seen one

[MattTheMan]

I hope and pray this video pushes future generations toward greatness ❤️