Elon Musk’s Mars Dream Gets One Step Closer After SpaceX Catches Booster 

Super proud of my son who works his a55 off at SpaceX. Love you with all my heart little buddy!❤

Man who catch booster with chopsticks accomplish anything.

To catch a rocket, you must be able to land it accuracy on target first and currently no one can even do that landing. This is how far ahead SpaceX is from the other

So much cutting edge technology being developed by SpaceX, Tesla, and Nurolink.

Tried to explain this to my 94 year old grandpa and he wouldn't believe me until I show it to him. Had to explain to him that that thing was 23 stories tall. He witnessed so many historic events through the 20th and 21st century, WW2, Cold war, the entire 70 years reign of Queen Elisabeth II, Moon landing, all the NASA missions, the birth internet and of AI, and now this.

Historical achievement. Not much great coverage from MSM. Such tremendous collaboration among very sharp minds, takes phenomenal management skills.

Imagine that Heavy Booster alone is More then 20 story building!!❤❤

Congratulations to everyone who works there....❤

This brought me back to watching the Apollo at the TV dept in Sears with 30 TVs tuned in and 50 people cheering. I yelled and screamed with tears today and am happy to be alive to see this! I’m proud to be an American again!

Wow. Just wow!

Elon is Ironman, he just hasn't finished his suit yet. Thank god he's on our side.

Never under estimate Elon

Good straightforward coverage of what an achievement this is. Thank you.

Distribution of wealth: a. Musk aspires to make humanity interplanetary b. Pee Diddly fills up a mansion with gallons of lubricants

THANK YOU ELON!

The chopstick landing is smart, ngl.

Humanity's exploration of what's out there didn't stop with Christopher Columbus.

Everything elon musk ever said was crazy....then after 10 years it became normal....

Catching a 24 storey building with chop sticks, on their first attempt, is pretty amazing 😅

So Cool 😎😎😎

I would really enjoy seeing an underground moon city, self-sufficient, producing all it needs (and more) by 2040. Jumping off the moon, mars payloads could be massive !!

CNN didnt report on this

Thank you Elon Musk, because he has done better things than the whole US current administration and EU administration together.

Where is Elon Musk haters 😂

You would be wrong to will it out. Musk will probably launch an entire squadron of starship during that window of time.

Simply fascinating. Outstanding!

lol tryna escape judgment will never work 😂.

THERE Are TWO MAIN REASONS why STARSHIP made History Today: 1- The STARSHIP Program IS Managed by Elon Musk & SpaceX... 👍👍 and, 2- The STARSHIP Program - NOT -Managed by Boeing 😆😅😂 🤣🤣🤣

Make blue origin look like like a Model T have they even made it up into orbit yet or is it just one payload

SpaceX = Tony Stark Boeing = Hammer Industries 😎

What we need is manufacturing up there so we dont HAVE to send stuff up minus food.

every morning I personally experience this in the smallest room in the house after blast off I usually land back on the throne

Elon went form an exploding Starship to it going into space and landing back on earth and ........Biden and Kamala installed 2 Ev charing stations with 20 billion.

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That's cool! We're preparing folks to go to my homeland. LOL

That's so huge and great. What a smart guy and surrounds himself with the smartest brightest people around him. Soon he'll be landed on places we haven't been yet and moves much faster than Nasa does, this guy must be the smartest guy in our times with putting all the ones before him together into one and his name is called Elon Musk

few simple questions though: Why cant the booster simply land instead of being caught mid air? What is exactly the problem that is being solved by it? Isnt it safer to just make it land??

Incredible

Starlink owner here. Effee on a cloudy day. Have a Skyroam for a backup. Hope it gets better than this?

Paul Allen from American Psycho

😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂 Cant land on the moon but we are going to Mars 😂🤣🤣

Those who made fun of Elon Musk most likely the same pronoun creatures who can not define what a woman is 😂😂😂

Felicitări pentru lansare și aterizare

Does anyone know what the panel covers are made of? I’ve been trying to look and am just ripe of curious!

Watched the launch and capture earlier today. Incredible stuff. Congrats to Elon and SpaceX.

No small feat. Great work by the team at SpaceX. Not just the troll at the top.

Is it moments like this that make Xi and Putin sweat?

Common sense + genius

it will fly, but straight into the Bermuda Triangle xD

Mechazilla and the catching arms are chopstick.

Awesome! If you put a bbq with a couple of 16oz texas steaks near the pad, i wonder how the steak will turn out. In the name of science of course.

كأنني أرى فلم خيال علمي ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Paul Allen, is he still handling the Fisher account?

Use the labs to share back up info too.

SpaceX has done more in terms of getting to orbit than NASA has been able to do the last 20 years.

Democratic media breakdown after elon success

Leave me alone with that, can you??

THIS IS INCREDIBLE Possibility. I feel dizzy.

What about blue origin?

A planet without a people for a people without a planet.

Flight must have been under 3 minutes!

Not sure I see the benefit over landing on a pad especially given the amount of time and resources put into it. Kennedy proposed landing on the moon and returning and we accomplished that in less time. Also, the starship just went into the sea and exploded. SpaceX calls that “iterative” success I guess.

Every single company Elon has bulit or be involved in has become multi-BILLION dollar company, even one he's not involved in anymore (OpenAl). Now even one of his companies' products, Starlink, is about to become a child company already worth billions. And there are some people so "special" they called Elon stupid. Some people in this world are just really "special", I guess. 😂

This will get Trump re-elected

Holy crap! This is amazing. And to think that this is one man’s dream. NASA, and our own government couldn’t do this!

We need to stop doubting Elon Musk. He is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation. Sorry Steve Jobs.

Elon Musk - the world's richest African-American!

Try building on Florida FIRST ELON.. We can barely survive the hurricanes here better yet keep the power goin lol

Starship will preposition 1,200 tons of fuel for his lunar roundtrip "Perplexing Apollo Questions for NASA" at principia-scientific

TRUMP2024

150 tons not kilos 😂

Imagine if we didn’t have spacex or Elon? How far behind in space exploration and technology we’d be

One day in the distant future, martians will protest colonialism and demand reparations.

The heavy booster was damaged as it was caught by the chopsticks as it gripped to hard. Elon put copper strips on the sides of the booster and have magnets set on the arms after launch producing electrical eddy currents to slow it down and stop. this will reduce the need to damage in future

Lets add more gases to our already depleted ozone layer for what reason. Oh yes so a Billionaire can go to mars !

My FREE ENERGY design is the future, all calculations correspond to the laws of physics

When is starlink going to be affordable for non billionaires?

ksp has a spacex mod

Beautiful catch! ... and this is important because?

Wait, do you think this was Elons' idea? haha

It was ‘emotional intelligence’ and power of friendship that built that thing, raw IQ right there

The real future is the past,it is the way the space shuttle lands,like an airplane!

And starship didn't explode this time

Oh yeah by the way, they were landing rockets on their tails in the 90s already. It's nothing new like everything Elon does. It's just something somebody else did before and did better.

She looks so sour, hahaha!

Elon Musk is a genius I love this guy .

Cool but don't drive your cars lol

Elon Musk is a killer, helping Russian fascists with Starlink!

✔️🙂 _Punktlandung._

Can we put Elon on his rocket ship to Mars?

Sorry, but millions of people will never live on Mars. The very low atmospheric pressure of the Martian atmosphere, which lacks any free oxygen, will make it a financially impossibility. Despite what you see in Hollywood movies, producing food at scale on Mars will always be impossible. The needed raw materials don't exist on Mars, and the surface is far too cold to grow anything. There is no fresh water on Mars, and what little water there is, remains frozen in permafrost nearly as hard as concrete. Just keeping from freezing every night would require enormous amounts of energy. With no fossil fuels, and occasional planet wide dust storms, what is the plan to produce that energy. Windmills don't work in a near vacuum. And if the money could be found to supply Mars with essential goods from Earth for centuries, the thousands of rocket launches needed to support even a moderate sized Mars colony, would severely pollute Earth's atmosphere with the global warming gas of carbon dioxide. When methane is burned inside a rocket engine it produces carbon dioxide and water vapor. And will gestation work in 40% of Earth's gravity? Humans evolved in 1 G, not in 0.4 G. I would bet that weaker gravity will cause problems while trying to reproduce on Mars. Many other obstacles exist. Think about all the stuff you consume every day, and how it is made. You consume WAY more energy and goods than you realize. Produce more waste too.

May dictator pal Musk-rat go to Mars........and not come back.......LOL

Nedra Ramp

🙌🐾👌🤎

Well he saved this rocket booster and wants to save the USA 🇺🇸. Please Help by VOTING

With 200 years away from going to Mars.

So we're just going to pretend that the 2nd stage, the part that goes to space, didn't crash on its 5th failed flight.

He’s a visionary but not the engineer that makes it happen. Some of his. Idioms are insane like another Chump presidency. Hitler was a visionary to wasn’t he? He had some incredible machines built. That’s not all he envisioned.

As I respect everything Musk does, we humans are never going to mars! Im-F’ING-possible. Maybe 100+years from now and that’s a big maybe. I ain’ts no science man and I ain’ts no genius but I do know it ain’ts never gonna happen. This isn’t the movies.

Give me a break. When he gets a rocket out of some orbital trajectory, you give me a call. He has done nothing but waste billions of dollars on a whole bunch of nothing. He can't get to the moon he'll never get to Mars. He is a man and you are all falling for it.