SpaceX’s Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk moves forward in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.
During this flight, the SpaceX team tried something that had never been done before.
Unlike previous flights, when the booster splashed down in the Indian Ocean, it decelerated and slowly descended back to the launch pad for large mechanical arms to catch it – in what is known as the “chopsticks manoeuvre”.
Watch as the SpaceX control room erupts with joy as the move is successfully completed, an achievement which the BBC’s Pallab Ghosh described as “quite amazing”.
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