TechSpaceX completes first-ever Starship capture

SpaceX’s Starship returned to its Texas launch tower after its longest orbital flight and slipped between the tower’s mechanical chopstick arms. It was the first successful recovery of the spacecraft’s upper stage. The Super Heavy booster’s planned recovery was aborted, and it exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

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