It just happens that for the first time in history, SpaceX was able to "capture" the starship spacecraft after returning from its orbit. After more than 22 hours of flight and 14 orbits around Earth, starship S42 returned to the launch site of Starbase in Texas, where it was captured mid-air on Pad 2 by the giant mechanical arms of the Maczilla Tower.

It just happens that for the first time in history, SpaceX was able to "capture" the starship spacecraft after returning from its orbit. After more than 22 hours of flight and 14 orbits around Earth, starship S42 returned to the launch site of Starbase in Texas, where it was captured mid-air on Pad 2 by the giant mechanical arms of the Maczilla Tower.

This is a critical step towards creating a fully reusable field system. In the past, SpaceX has already managed to "catch" a super heavy accelerator, but the starship itself was returned in this way after flying in orbit for the first time.

On this day, November 15, 1988, Buran's first and last flight took place. The last achievement of the Soviet space program that collapsed along with the Soviet Union and the roof of the hangar at Baikonur, which buried Buran under the rubble.