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SpaceX's Starship Completes Fifth Test Flight - and Lands Booster Back at Launch Tower

Early this morning SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on its fifth test flight. But more importantly, CNBC points out, SpaceX "made a dramatic first catch of the rocket's more than 20-story tall booster." Watch the footage here. It's pretty exciting... The achievement marks a maj...

The achievement marks a major milestone toward SpaceX's goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system... Starship separated and continued on to space, traveling halfway around the Earth before reentering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Indian Ocean as intended to complete the test. "SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt, with technicians pouring tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success," the company wrote on its website.

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