SpaceX Starship booster catch!

[markjay]

But was it a "giant leap"...

It's a giant leap backwards. Virtually.

 

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The next leap was to do away with the legs the booster would conventionally have to carry in order to land, and transfer that mass to the gantry that catches the booster.

And I believe the legs weighed 14 tonnes so well worth while losing that weight.