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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.

I think it's an homage to previous chimp astronauts.

Knight E6.

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.)

Banana is on screen at T+00:24

With 5.2 million people watching. This flight probably broke the world record for most people watching a single specific banana, ever.