When Elon Musk asked his ex-wife to come to his hotel room to check out ‘rocket videos’

Despite the technological achievement, Musk acknowledged the complexity of the task. The booster, still travelling at more than half the speed of sound, would need to be caught while descending. He revealed that he instructed the team to remove the tower’s legs, focusing solely on the arms for the catch. The booster’s engines would slow its descent, allowing the arms to close around it. This demonstration of Musk’s enthusiasm for rocket technology also revealed his more playful side, one that his ex-wife, Talulah Riley, once experienced when he invited her to his hotel room to watch “rocket videos.” She later shared, with humour, that Musk had indeed just shown her actual videos of rockets.