SpaceX is targeting Friday, Nov. 13, for the 15th test flight of its 407-foot Starship from Starbase in Cameron County, Texas, with a 75-minute launch window opening at 4:45 p.m. CST.

For the first time, the company plans to return and catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage, Ship 42, at the launch tower. If both catches succeed, Starship would become the first fully recovered orbital rocket in history.

Until now, the Ship has splashed down in distant oceans after its test objectives. Former SpaceX engineer Austin Spiegel, now CEO of Sift, describes the difficulty of recovery with a saying attributed to Musk: it is like trying to land a toothpick in a hurricane.

The Planetary Society's Casey Dreier calls catching a massive rocket a critical step toward rapid reusability, which SpaceX needs to turn launches around within a couple of days.

SpaceX says the flight profile offers several opportunities to deorbit early over the ocean if problems arise — the booster into the Gulf and the Ship into the Pacific, per Florida Today.

SpaceX will monitor both stages' health throughout before committing to the Saturday afternoon catch attempt, expected around 4:15 p.m. ET, per ABC News.

Reusability drives down launch costs because, as Dreier explains, fuel is the relatively cheap part of a launch, and rapid reuse with minimal refurbishment lets SpaceX send more mass to orbit — central to both NASA's Artemis lunar landing plans and Musk's Mars ambitions.

The biggest remaining hurdle, according to Dreier, is the heat shield: the tiles protecting the vehicle during reentry must be inspected for cracks and repaired quickly rather than checked piece by piece over months.

Florida Today reports that a Kennedy Space Center launch pad is nearing completion, and Starship could debut from Florida as soon as the next flight.

Cameron County residents may hear sonic booms when Ship 42 returns, which SpaceX says pose no health risk.

Louisiana viewers could get a bonus: WAFB reports that a launch late in Friday's window — after Baton Rouge's roughly 5:08 p.m. sunset — could produce a glowing 'space jellyfish' exhaust cloud low on the southern horizon, though a launch before 5:30 p.m. is unlikely to be seen locally.

A live webcast is expected about 30 minutes before liftoff.