Starship Flight 42 booster caught by the same launch tower it launched from
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-11-15
SpaceX's Starship Flight 42 returned from orbit and was caught mid-air by the same launch tower it departed from, with the vehicle captured at roughly 0.4 km altitude. The poster calls it the first time in history a spacecraft has been recovered by its own launch tower and one of the greatest engineering achievements ever, bringing interplanetary travel closer.
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