SpaceX carries out first-ever spaceship capture

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft returned from its longest-yet flight in orbit on Saturday to the tower it was launched from on Friday. It was the first key recovery of the rocket system's centerpiece vessel in the company's decadelong effort to develop a fully reusable rocket. The successful return of the craft's upper stage after orbiting Earth 14 times for over 22 hours marked a ​key milestone in the multibillion-dollar development of Starship, which billionaire Elon Musk sees ​as key to SpaceX's satellite business and ambitions to put humans on the moon and eventually Mars. NASA welcomed the news. The US space agency is paying billions of dollars for Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon later this decade and help build a permanent lunar base. More to come on this developing news