A fire at the base of the 50-metre rocket was quickly extinguished and the rocket remained standing after the six-minute flight.
HISTORY!!!!!!! On their 19th anniversary of being a company, @SpaceX proved their Starship vehicle’s wacky landing maneuver works!!! They NAILED THE LANDING!!! That was incredible!!! Congrats @elonmusk and the rest of the team!!!! That was unreal!!! pic.twitter.com/LYAE2Jr6KF
— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) May 5, 2021
NASA chose the SpaceX Starship to deliver astronauts to the moon in the next few years.
An artist’s illustration of SpaceX’s Starship on the moon.
The 3 billion dollar contract was halted last week after Jeff Bezo’s company – blue origin protested it.
BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES
The Amazon CEO announced Blue Origin will launch its new Sheppard rocket and capsule in July
The interior of the New Shepard crew capsule, which will carry people for the first time on a July 20 launch
The Sheppard’s flights are “sub-orbital” meaning they will take passengers on a short trip into space and back down to earth.
The company says “only 569 people have ever been over the so-called Kármán Line in space… and it wants to change this and change it dramatically”
SpaceX also plans to launch people into space by Autumn this year.
So the battle between the billionaires to turn their rockets to riches continues on… until the winner is crowned within the next one or two years.
If you’re lucky to be heading abroad this summer, a visit to the famous canals in Venice, Italy might be on your itinerary, but beware of new fees to come.
Venice will charge most of its visitors an entry fee from next year as it tries to tackle overcrowding.
The city’s tourism chief says Venice are pioneers and will be the first city in the world to apply a measure that could be revolutionary.
From mid January next year, day-trippers must book their visit online before travelling.
They will pay a basic fee of 3 euro, which will rise to 10 euro at peak times.
Tourism is bouncing back in Venice after the pandemic with daily visitors again often outnumbering the 50-thousand residents of the city centre.
The scheme will be closely watched by other popular tourist destinations, overwhelmed with travellers around the world.
It’s no secret Brit’s love their Pub Grub, but plating up Bangers and Mash is a tradition on the decline
The number of pubs in England and Wales is continuing to fall, hitting its lowest level on record this year
After struggling through Covid the industry now faced soaring prices and higher energy costs, it warned.
There were just under 40-thousand pubs in June, down by 7,000 in the past decade, according to new research.
In fact, thousands of pubs have closed as younger people drink less, supermarkets sell cheaper alcohol and the industry complains of being too heavily taxed.
Pubs which had “disappeared” from the communities they once served had either been demolished or converted for other purposes, meaning that they were “lost forever”.