On the fifth test flight of its enormous Starship rocket, the booster stage returned to the launchpad and was caught in midair by two large mechanical arms.
The Starship rocket system is 397 feet tall, about 90 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty, and has 33 powerful Raptor engines.
As those engines lift Starship off the launchpad in South Texas, they will generate 16 million pounds of thrust at full throttle.
The upper part, also called Starship, may ultimately carry people to the moon or even Mars, resembling a shiny rocket from science fiction.
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