SpaceX Makes the History Books Again After Catching ‘Super Heavy’ Rocket

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There’s no question that SpaceX has been in the frontier of privatized space exploration and recently the company achieved another engineering first. This video was captured from a landing pad in Texas and this was the moment the massive first stage rocket from a Starship test launch was caught by the giant arms of the docking tower.

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00:00There's no question that SpaceX has been in the frontier of privatized space exploration

00:08and recently the company achieved another engineering first.

00:12This video was captured from a landing pad in Texas and this was the moment the massive

00:16first stage rocket from a Starship test launch was captured by the giant arms of the docking

00:20tower.

00:21The super heavy first stage rocket measures some two hundred and thirty three feet from

00:25end to end and while you've no doubt seen the company's Falcon 9 rocket land on its

00:29own previously, for the super heavy they've opted to go with a mechanized catching arm

00:33system as they wanted to maximize the booster's payload capability and landing legs would

00:37increase its weight substantially.

00:39This successful test flight of both the super heavy booster and SpaceX's Starship follows

00:44several failed attempts in recent years.

00:46However there is a lot on the line with several missions already on the books and scheduled

00:50with NASA.

00:51Of course a couple of those are the Artemis 1 and 2 missions to the moon where astronauts

00:55will first board a modified Starship for a flyby before another one will take humans

00:59there and eventually land on the lunar surface.

01:02According to NASA, the first of those missions could be underway as early as 2026.

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