Washington, Nov. 15 -- US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman congratulated SpaceX and its chief Elon Musk after the company achieved a major milestone in rocket technology by successfully catching its Starship spacecraft in the mechanical arms of its launch tower following its return from orbit.
The unprecedented manoeuvre, carried out on Saturday (local time) at the company's Starbase facility in Texas, marked the first time an orbital rocket's upper stage had returned from space and been caught upright at its launch site, in a development that could advance efforts to make rockets fully reusable.
"Congrats @elonmusk - a great American. Keep leading the frontier." Hegseth posted ...