“Can I buy a ticket?”: Anand Mahindra’s message to Elon Musk about SpaceX rocket catching | On trend

Elon Musk's SpaceX reached a major milestone when its 233-foot-long rocket booster successfully flew back to its launch pad, caught in the air by two mechanical arms, nicknamed “chopsticks.” The first-of-its-kind feat took place during the Starship rocket's final test flight and has received widespread praise.

Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group, went to X to congratulate Musk.

The industrialist wrote a message to SpaceX's CEO while also sharing a video of the lower half of the spacecraft returning to the launch pad. “This Sunday I'm happy to be a homebody as I watch history being made. “This experiment could be the very defining moment when space travel was democratized and made routine,” he said.

The industrialist jokingly asked the Tesla CEO: “Where can I buy my ticket?”

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The groundbreaking achievement is all the more impressive given that SpaceX's Starship, along with its 400-foot Super Heavy booster, is the largest and most powerful rocket in the world.

The rocket, which launched from the Boca Chica facility in Texas, separated from the Super Heavy booster at an altitude of about 70 kilometers, sending the second stage Starship rocket into space. The Super Heavy carrier then re-fired three of its 33 Raptor engines to slowly return to the launch pad from which it had just departed.

In an extraordinary feat of engineering, the returning booster was quickly caught by the launch tower's mechanical arms, which held it in place using small rods beneath its grid ribs.

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