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WHEN INSANE ENGINEERING MAKES PERFECT SENSE SpaceX catching a 220-foot rocket with a tower instead of landing legs is the kind of insane engineering that only makes sense when you think about it backwards. Landing legs add about 5% to the vehicle's mass. So instead of putting legs on...

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Elon Musk, 3 years ago: This is banana stuff. It probably won't work the first time. “Instead of putting landing legs on the booster and ship, we are going to catch them with a tower to save the weight of the landing legs. We're talking about catching the largest flying object ever made on a giant tower with chopstick arms. It's like Karate Kid with the fly, but much bigger. This probably won't work the first time. Anyway, this is bananas. This is banana stuff.” Interview with Lex Fridman, 2021
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Elon Musk, 3 years ago: This is banana stuff. It probably won't work the first time. “Instead of putting landing legs on the booster and ship, we are going to catch them with a tower to save the weight of the landing legs. We're talking about catching the largest flying object ever made on a giant tower with chopstick arms. It's like Karate Kid with the fly, but much bigger. This probably won't work the first time. Anyway, this is bananas. This is banana stuff.” Interview with Lex Fridman, 2021

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Elon Musk: Our goal is to fly Starship like an aircraft. “In order to achieve full reusability, everything's got to be perfect. The engines, the structure, the avionics, the choice of propellant. You've got to go to extreme measures for mass optimization, which is why we have the tower catch the rocket. Instead of putting on landing legs, which are heavy, the rocket can simply be caught by the tower. And we haven't achieved full reusability yet, but we do expect to achieve that hopefully later this year with Starship. If you're going to go a step beyond that, which is to make it rapidly reusable such that the rocket lands, it gets caught by the tower, gets put back on the launch stand and can be flown again without any refurbishment or laborious inspection. Like an aircraft. Yeah, this is incredibly difficult. This is the first time that there's ever been a rocket where that is possible. That's what makes Starship so profound.” Source: AI Satellite presentation, SpaceX, June 8, 2026

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Elon Musk: When I first suggested catching Starship's booster, people thought I lost my mind. “If you can move mass [from the rocket] to the ground site, it's better to move mass to the ground site. That's why we took legs off the booster and just have the tower catch it. It sounds mad. I know it sounds insane. When I suggested that, people thought I lost my mind, and maybe I have. It might take a few kicks at the can, but we'll get it right.” Interview with Everyday Astronaut, August 7, 2021

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