SpaceX Caught Starship Booster With Chopsticks Off the Texas Coast [VIDEO]

Alright, even if you think Elon Musk is a little out there, what SpaceX pulled off yesterday off the Texas coast was seriously cool!

SpaceX just used these giant “chopsticks” to catch a rocket booster, and they nailed it!

Just to give you an idea, the whole rocket is about 400 feet tall, and the booster they caught is 232 feet of that. That’s a massive thing to move around, so catching it with those chopsticks is a game changer.

Here's a wide shot of the 'catch':

Oh, and the upper part of the rocket flew for about an hour and then landed softly in the Indian Ocean. Not bad, right?

SpaceX says this chopstick idea is key to bigger things, like building a Moon base and eventually getting humans on Mars. Elon Musk called it “science fiction without the fiction.” And I gotta say, it’s a big step toward making that whole multiplanetary life thing a reality!

Pretty wild stuff, huh?