Watch: 'Astonishing' moment Starship booster caught in mid air

SpaceX's Starship has begun its 5th trial flight, arsenic Elon Musk pushes up successful his quest to 1 time instrumentality astronauts to the Moon – possibly adjacent to Mars.

During this flight, the SpaceX squad attempted thing that had ne'er been done before.

Unlike successful erstwhile flights, erstwhile the booster splashed down successful the Indian Ocean, it slowed itself down and descended mildly backmost toward the launchpad for a brace of elephantine mechanical arms to drawback it – successful what’s known arsenic the "chopsticks manoeuvre".

Watch the infinitesimal the SpaceX power country erupted successful cheers arsenic the determination was successfully completed, an accomplishment the BBC's Pallab Ghosh described arsenic "absolutely astonishing".