Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship successfully pulled off another spectacular launch on Tuesday — but aborted an attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster rocket with the “Mechazilla” arms.
Hundreds gathered at SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, to watch Starship’s sixth test flight, including President-elect Donald Trump, who flew down from Mar-a-Lago to join SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
SpaceX hoped to catch lightning in a bottle a second time following last month’s successful catch — a spectacular maneuver in which the reusable booster separates from the Starship spacecraft and then uses its thrusters to land safely back in the “Mechazilla” mechanical claw on the launch tower.
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