New Zealand’s Rocket Lab has released a video showing the process of capturing the first-stage Electron helicopter, which took place for the first time in history during the rocket’s regular launch on the night of 3 May.

Images were taken from various angles, including the camera inside the escape ladder and on a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter. The task was called There And Again, in reference to Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, or Back and Back.

The night before Tuesday, two minutes after launch from a spaceport in New Zealand, there was a split staircase. The second phase continued the dispersal of 34 satellites, and the first began landing in the designated area.

At an altitude of about 13 kilometers, a brake parachute designed for high speed arrived, and at an altitude of six kilometers the main was released. Source