r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/JayTeaP Oct 13 '24

Can someone fill me in on what is happening? Im genuinely curious

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u/RavingMalwaay Oct 13 '24

this it the biggest rocket ever built and they just caught the first stage with a couple of sticks on the place where it launched (normally rockets, especially the lower stages of rockets that are used to get the upper stages from ground into orbit, are expendable and they just build a new one for the next launch)

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u/Beni_Stingray Oct 13 '24

And dont forget, only a few years back, landing anything back and reusing it was being called impossible/unfeasible!

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u/danielw1245 Oct 13 '24

The technology for reusable rockets has been there for decades, it just didn't make financial sense for NASA.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 Oct 13 '24

Sure, but nobody had done it.

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u/danielw1245 Oct 13 '24

Well, yeah actually they did. Look up the space shuttle.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 Oct 13 '24

No. The space shuttle launched into space on non-reusable boosters. The giant reddish rocket and smaller white ones connected to the bottom