SpaceX successfully carries out first-ever spaceship catch

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft on Saturday returned from its longest ⁠flight in orbit yet to the ⁠Texas launch tower it was launched ⁠from a day prior, showing the first key recovery of the rocket system’s centrepiece vessel in the company’s decade-long effort to develop a fully reusable rocket. The towering two-stage rocket’s Super Heavy booster – the rocket’s bottom half – carried Starship to space on Friday, lifting off from SpaceX’s Starbase, Texas, facilities. ‌ That booster had failed to...