Video: SpaceX rocket booster makes successful landing as it is caught by ‘chopsticks’

SpaceX rocket booster makes successful landing as it is caught by 'chopsticks'Source Reuters

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00:00Pot, the super-heavy booster, back at the launch tower.

00:06What is Spider-Boy?

00:10Are you kidding me?

00:19Uh, Dan, I don't know about you, but we're losing our stuff over here.

00:25Guys, I'm sorry. Like, even in this day and age, what we just saw, that looked like magic.

00:34Oh, wow.

00:36Dan, you must have been insane.

00:41We are still going wild over here, aren't we?

00:44Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books.

00:50This is a live view of the super-heavy booster,

00:54as it has just been successfully caught back at the very same launch tower that it just came from.

01:00Dan, I love this.

01:02You are reflecting exactly what everybody else here in Hawthorne,

01:06except maybe a little bit more, because you got to see it with your own eyes.

01:10How was that?

01:12We got it. I mean, like, ah, like...

01:16I can't even describe that.

01:19Oh, by the way, ship, main engine cut off.

01:22Ship's in orbit, but...

01:26I am, like, shaking right now. That was...

01:31Yeah, it...

01:33Oh, this is not... I mean...

01:35Yeah, let's check in on ship.

01:37It's hard to believe that...

01:39Nominal orbit insertion.

01:41Oh, right. Exciting news there.

01:46NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology