"Bananas have been used for quick visual comparisons for quite some time and our teammates thought it was time to bring the venerated yellow fruit to Starship," said Kate Tice, a quality engineering manager at SpaceX in a statement. "Today, we're flying Starship's first-ever physical payload, which is, as you might have guessed, a banana."
"You can see our stuffed banana payload, which is doubling as today's zero gravity or zero-g indicator," Tice said. "And while this payload will remain inside the vehicle at all times and will not be deployed today, it did give us a chance to do a test run of payload approval processes with the FAA, and that's something that we're hoping to do next year if we start flying our first Starlink satellites on Starship. Godspeed, banana."
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