Flight 6 of SpaceX's giant Starship is scheduled to fly no earlier than Monday ... its historic Flight 5 when the Super Heavy ...

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Riding off the high of an epic test flight, rocket billionaire Elon Musk revealed upcoming plans for Starship's enhanced reusability.

SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship vehicle for the fifth time ever today (Oct. 13), sending the giant rocket aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 8:25 am. EDT (1225 GMT; ...

As with SpaceX's successful Flight 5 on Oct. 13, Flight 6 will attempt to capture the Starship Super Heavy booster at its landing site using giant metal "chopsticks." The Ship vehicle, meanwhile ...

And instead of just landing the booster, SpaceX will try to catch it out of the air using what looks like a giant pair of chopsticks that will close around the booster as it arrives at the tower.

As it descended toward the launchpad, a pair of giant mechanical "chopsticks," or arms, snatched it. The first-of-a-kind feat brings SpaceX one step closer to Musk's goals of building the first ...

Here, a giant machine with giant “chopstick” metal arms waited. And, on its very first attempt at trying this, the booster slowed down from four times the speed of sound, hovered and steered ...

And it was a picture-perfect landing, with the massive booster slowly adjusting its descent using its thrusters to gently be caught by the tower's "chopsticks" arms. "Good, our first catch of the ...

Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has just pulled off the seemingly impossible. During the company's fifth Starship test flight, SpaceX successfully caught the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster using ...