There was something incredibly fitting about SpaceX and Elon Musk achieving the greatest advancement in space travel in decades on Columbus Day weekend.

On Sunday morning, the company that is pushing the boundaries of possible space flight successfully caught its Super Heavy booster out of the air, roughly seven minutes after the rocket had lifted off from the company’s launchpad in Texas. It was the first time that a rocket of that size had returned to the Earth’s surface with the possibility of being reused, as well as the first time that a rocket of any size had been caught out of the air.