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.