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Is there a benefit to catching the booster instead of having it land? Was this one extra tall? Sorry in advance if these are dumb questions.
Hopefully it means a reduced mass since the booster doesn't need any landing legs which means more performance. The idea is that boosters should be quickly reusable, basically landing and being refueled before flying again. That would take more time with a separate landing location