Historic Starship booster capture was a second from a fiery end
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- Oct 28, 2024
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The Super Heavy about to be captured
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As the world watched slack-jawed while SpaceX's Super Heavy booster made the world's first tower capture landing after boosting the Starship 5 mission into orbit, few knew that the event came within one second of disaster.
The capture of the Super Heavy first stage of the giant Starship rocket was one of those space events that I'm likely to remember exactly where I was for the rest of my life. Whatever good or bad could be said about the Starship program or its future, this was a moment that was firmly grounded in history as the gigantic booster, larger than that of the Saturn V rocket's first stage, made a controlled, powered approach to the Mechzilla tower that launched it and now cradled it in equally gigantic steel arms.
However, we now know that the capture came within a heartbeat of being aborted and would the Super Heavy came incredibly close to crashing on the desert floor.
In one of the most remarkably casual disclosures in space history, SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) with an insert video capture of him playing a computer game. What's incredible is that while playing Musk was talking shop with an unnamed member of his staff.
The topic of discussion? Starship 5.
T150 clear in 3:25. Too much time spent killing minions vs elites. Had <3 min potential. pic.twitter.com/oYRqqpVyGe
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