At 3:19pm CST on November 14th in Starbase Texas, SpaceX shocked the spaceflight world by successfully capturing Ship 42 after it returned from orbit. Watching S42 glide through the clouds, perform the flip maneuver (powered by it’s venerable Raptor engines), and slow down into the waiting arms of Mechzilla was a sight like no other. This goal has been the Holy Grail of rocketry, an improbable task for any space company to fully reuse every stage of a rocket, and now SpaceX has made it possible. Congrats to SpaceX and all the engineers that have worked so hard to make this moment a reality!
Image: SpaceX
Image: SpaceX
Image: SpaceX
