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Catching the booster rather than getting it to land on the launch pad reduces the need for complex hardware on the ground and will enable rapid redeployment of the vehicle in the future. Elon Musk and SpaceX have grand designs that the rocket system will one day take humans to the Moon, and then on to Mars, making our species "multi-planetary".

The US space agency, Nasa, will also be delighted the flight has gone to plan. It has paid the company $2.8bn (£2.14bn) to develop Starship into a lander capable of returning astronauts to the Moon's surface by 2026. In space terms that is not that far away so Elon Musk's team were eager to get the rocket re-launched as soon as possible.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go

Federal Aviation Admin (FAA), US govt body that approves all flights, had previously said there would be no launch b4 Nov reviewed company's permits, last mth agency Elon Musk have been in a public spat with FAA said it was seeking to fine his company, SpaceX, $633,000 for allegedly failing to follow its license conditions. B4 issuing license, FAA reviews impact flight, in particular the effect on environment. Musk threatened to sue agency & SpaceX put out a public blog post hitting back against "false reporting" that part of the rocket was polluting the environment. Currently FAA only considers the impact on the immedia..