The rocket blasting off
SpaceX is celebrating after its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, made a successful landing.
The 400 feet the empty spaceship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border.
But unlike its four predecessors, whose returning boosters ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea, this time it landed safely.
The launch tower monstrous metal arms, dubbed chopsticks, caught the 232-foot booster.
‘Are you kidding me?’ SpaceX’s Dan Huot observed with excitement from near the launch site. ‘I am shaking right now.’
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