Elon Musk’s company widely celebrated its great achievement.
For a long time, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, has sought to recover the elements that allow a rocket to take off in order to reuse them and, thus, to lower the costs of each space mission.
And, this Sunday, October 13, an astonishing maneuver was succeeded on the first try by SpaceX and its teams.
The objective was to recover the Starship rocket before it hit the ground. After a perfectly orchestrated takeoff, part of the rocket returned to its starting point where mechanical arms had to recover it before hitting the ground.
The images are breathtaking and show, in the delirious enthusiasm of Elon Musk’s employees, the Super Heavy, the rocket’s booster, returning exactly to the planned location and being “captured” by Mechazilla, the nickname given to the loaded tower. to catch up with the rocket.
This was the 5th flight of the Starship rocket. This had, until now, failed to return to Earth without exploding. The recovery of the rocket by Mechazilla was a first successful attempt on October 13.
