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Cost cutting in effect at SpaceX: Falcon Heavy used a Tesla Roadster as their test payload, Starship only has a banana.

• adolph 2y ago
  No shots of the banana yet post launch. Did it rip away from the strings? (Up until I typed this I hadn’t considered they might use an artificial banana.)
  • Laremere 2y ago
    Banana is on screen at T+00:24
    • dotancohen 2y ago
      With 5.2 million people watching. This flight probably broke the world record for most people watching a single specific banana, ever.
• state_less 2y ago
  I think it's an homage to previous chimp astronauts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCX5F74zIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCX5F74zIM Knight E6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_(chimpanzee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_(chimpanzee)
• aaron695 2y ago
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