After a booster explosion on Friday, SpaceX successfully caught the upper stage, or spacecraft, portion of its massive Starship rocket from orbit on Saturday — a triumphant milestone for the company.
SpaceX made the historic catch using its "chopsticks," mechanical arms attached to a launch tower, at its facility in Starbase, Texas.
Test Flight 15, the most ambitious Starship test yet, marked the first time Musk's company attempted to catch both the rocket's booster and upper stage.
During the first phase of the test flight on Friday, SpaceX failed to catch and recover the booster, instead diverting it to an offshore splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico where it exploded before hitting the water.
The rocket's upper stage then continued into orbit and flew around the Earth 14 times before successfully landing on SpaceX's launch tower, nicknamed Mechazilla.