Musk: SpaceX to catch both Super Heavy booster and Starship on Flight 15
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-21
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX's Flight 15 will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship ship. If successful, it would be the first time an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered — which he called a massive technology milestone.
Musk framed fully reusable orbital launch vehicles as the only path to extending consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis.
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