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SpaceX just CAUGHT a rocket booster! This is the first time anyone’s ever done that. Here’s why this was so hard and why it’s such a big deal…
People have been trying to reuse expensive rocket components for a long time. Particularly the booster, the part that boosts the piece with people or cargo out of our atmosphere. NASA has their rocket boosters detach and fall into the ocean, which means a specialized dive team has to go get it from the ocean, disassemble, refurbish, and then reload it with propellant.
SpaceX found ways to make their boosters turn around and propel themselves back to specialized landing areas, which was already a big deal and there’ve been a lot of hurdles along the way…
That’s what makes this accomplishment so cool. Not only is it part of the biggest rocket ever, Starship, but it returned back to the exact spot it launched from and lowered itself precisely into giant metal arms on its first attempt.
This means the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket is also quickly reusable – opening up so many possibilities for the future of spaceflight.
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