If I hadn’t just seen this reported on the BBC evening news bulletin, I would probably have assumed it was some kind of computer-generated hoax. “Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has completed a world first after part of it was captured on its return to the launch pad. The SpaceX vehicle’s lower half manoeuvred back beside its launch tower where it was caught in a giant pair of mechanical arms, as part of its first test flight.” Say what you will about Musk, what he and the scientists working for him achieved today is truly remarkable. To get a rocket to take off, and then land back on it’s launch pad ready to be reused, is utterly jaw dropping. As someone who sometimes struggles to park his powerchair neatly, my mind boggles at the sheer amount of mechanics which must have been involved. Seriously, if you watch nothing else today, watch this.