Aakash GuptaLead source
On Friday, SpaceX is going to try to catch a spaceship taller than a 15-story building with a pair of giant metal arms, right after it comes screaming back from orbit at 17,000 miles an hour. If it works, it'll be the first time a rocket has gone to orbit and come back in one piece. Every rocket that's ever reached orbit has thrown away a big chunk of itself on the way. The Space Shuttle landed on a runway and flew again, and it still dropped its giant fuel tank into the ocean on every mission. SpaceX has flown Falcon rockets more than 700 times and lands the bottom half almost every time now, but the top half, the part that actually gets to orbit, gets tossed every single flight. Starship was designed so nothing gets thrown away, and Friday is the first time SpaceX is going for both…Read original on X