Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX successfully ‘caught’ a rocket booster after returning it to its launch pad for the first time, a historic breakthrough in its journey toward taking humans to Mars before the end of the decade. But because of the billionaire’s endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, the Democrat-led administration in Washington clearly doesn’t think that congratulations are in order. SpaceX’s ‘Starship,’ the craft designed to turn humanity into a multi-planetary species, was developed to be a fully reusable launch vehicle, with its launch tower capable of ‘catching’ both of its rocket stages, the ‘Super Heavy’ booster and the spacecraft. On Sunday, October 13th, the biggest rocket ever built took flight for the fifth time, with the intention of testing a bold maneuver that’s never been tried before: catching its giant, 71-meter-tall booster with the launch tower’s ‘chopsticks.’ The test was an overwhelming success. “A day for the …