In another milestone on our journey towards becoming a multiplanetary species, SpaceX made some incredible engineering feats. Their latest accomplishment was being able to catch expensive boosters using chopsticks towers. This can help reduce the cost of Space Travels and make it more sustainable.
Cleo Abrams explains this beautifully below here
Starship rocket has completed a world first after part of it was captured on its return to the launch pad.
The SpaceX vehicle's lower half manoeuvred back beside its launch tower where it was caught in a giant pair of mechanical arms, as part of its fifth test flight.
It brings SpaceX’s ambition of developing a fully reusable and rapidly deployable rocket a big step closer.
"A day for the history books," engineers at SpaceX declared as the booster landed safely.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go
Watching the success, you might not notice all the models that have gone wrong before they achieved this success. Here are some clips of their failures from the past 20 years from 2002 to 2022. When models don't work, you study the problem and learn from them before you achieve your successes. SpaceX is famous for their first principles to get to the core of the problem to try and simplify and design more efficient and simpler designs. Resilience is how you achieve successes that SpaceX achieved.