The tower has caught the rocket!!" Musk said via X. Company employees screamed in joy as the booster slowly lowered itself into the launch tower's arms.
Even in this day and age, what we just saw is magic," SpaceX's Dan Huot observed from near the launch site. "I am shaking right now.
Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books," added SpaceX's Kate Tice from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
The retro-looking stainless steel spacecraft on top continued around the world once free of the booster, targeting a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
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