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SpaceX’s bullet-shaped, stainless steel Starship returned to Earth on Saturday, captured in midair by giant mechanical arms at the launch pad 22 hours after its journey began.
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journey → shape → pad
The recovery delivered the grand finale sought by Elon Musk and his team, marking the first time a Starship returning from space has been caught.
However, the company missed its target of a double catch after the first-stage booster exploded shortly after liftoff from Texas on Friday, leaving debris cordoned off by buoys in the Gulf of Mexico.
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booster → deliver → Mexico
The sci-fi-like capture helped overshadow the failure of the booster recovery.
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capture → overshadow → recovery
"Can you believe it?" shouted SpaceX commentator Dan Huot.
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Huot → believe → it
SpaceX officials stated that Saturday’s catch proves the total reusability of Starship, which is intended for lunar and Martian travel.
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which → state → travel
Although Friday’s booster recovery was unsuccessful, the firm had already logged three successful booster catches, validating the technique.
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firm → log → technique
NASA welcomed the achievement.
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NASA → welcome → achievement
The space agency is investing billions of dollars for Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon later this decade and assist in constructing a permanent lunar base.
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Starship → invest → base
Musk’s wider ambitions involve launching a fleet of Starships to establish a city on Mars.
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ambitions → involve → Mars
The world’s largest and most powerful rocket — a 407-foot (124-meter) behemoth — blasted off late Friday afternoon from SpaceX’s Starship base near the U.S.-Mexican border.
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rocket → blast → border
Neatly from its booster before things went awry, the upper-stage spacecraft soared into orbit and released 26 advanced Starlink satellites.
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spacecraft → go → satellites
Starship continued circling the world 165 miles (265 kilometers) up, with live views of itself and Earth streaming down via Starlink.
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views → continue → Starlink
The spacecraft completed 14 laps around Earth, outshining the previous mission’s one to two laps.
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spacecraft → complete → laps
SpaceX reported that everything on the spacecraft, including its vital heat shield, appeared to work well.
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everything → report → shield
As for the booster, SpaceX’s Kate Tice said its engines stopped firing too soon on the way back down.
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engines → say → way
The booster’s guidance system sensed it wasn’t in the right position and automatically initiated the watery detour and self-destruction.
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it → sense → detour
Engineers are still investigating the cause.
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Engineers → investigate → cause
SpaceX expects to begin launching Starships from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center within the next few months.
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SpaceX → expect → months
That is the starting point for NASA’s next Artemis mission, which will skip the moon and remain in orbit around Earth for lunar lander practice.
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which → skip → practice
Artemis III’s four astronauts will attempt to dock their capsule with not only Starship but Blue Origin’s Blue Moon.
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astronauts → attempt → Starship
The two companies will take turns delivering crews to the lunar surface.
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companies → take → surface
NASA is targeting as soon as 2028 for Artemis IV, humanity’s first moon landing since the Apollo era more than half a century ago.
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NASA → target → era
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