On Saturday, November 14, the space company SpaceX owned by Elon Musk managed to capture in the air the Starship spacecraft with the mechanical arms of the launch tower in the state of Texas, USA, for the first time after returning from Earth orbit.
This achievement is considered an important step in building fully reusable rockets, which can greatly reduce the cost of space travel.
In the past, space rockets have been subjected to very high temperatures in the atmosphere when returning to Earth, a situation that SpaceX said it wants to prevent from happening again by making usable rockets.
On Saturday, in front of hundreds of spectators standing far from the space station in Texas, SpaceX's Starship spacecraft emerged from the clouds, slowly headed toward the launch pad, and was finally stopped by "Chapstick Arms."
The pioneers of the aerospace industry sought for decades to build rockets that could be used many times for space travel.