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SpaceX successfully caught its Starship upper stage, a critical milestone proving the rocket’s reusability and advancing its goal of enabling human spaceflight.
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SpaceX’s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit in victory for company
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Although booster exploded, company caught upper stage for first time in campaign to make megarocket reusableSpaceX’s megarocket Starship returned to its Texas launch tower on Saturday, a milestone in the company’s efforts to make the craft suitable for human spaceflight.The 171ft (52-meter) bullet-shaped upper stage descended into the clutch of the tower’s mechanical arms, ending a 22hr mission where the craft orbited Earth 14 times. Continue reading...
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