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Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)

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teractiveodular ◴[19 Nov 24 22:12 UTC] No.42188663[source]▶
Cost cutting in effect at SpaceX: Falcon Heavy used a Tesla Roadster as their test payload, Starship only has a banana.
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1. state_less ◴[19 Nov 24 22:47 UTC] No.42188903[source]▶
I think it's an homage to previous chimp astronauts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCX5F74zIM

Knight E6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_(chimpanzee)