When SpaceX launched its sixth test flight of Starship on Tuesday, it included a payload for the first time—a toy banana. Now, you can buy your own plush toy banana on the SpaceX website. But while the SpaceX shop has plenty of holiday gifts available,

A camera mounted in Starship's payload bay revealed the toy banana held by cables tied to its top and bottom. More than just a visual signal that Starship had reached space on its suborbital trajectory, the banana was also a stand-in for gaining the government's approval to begin launching more purposeful payloads on future Starship flights.

SpaceX's Starship 6 test flight stole the show with a banana payload, used as a zero-gravity indicator and for FAA testing, while pushing the limits of spacecraft reusability.

The sixth flight of SpaceX's Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX is gearing up for a major Starship test flight. The mission aims to test key technologies like booster catching and advanced heatshields. The f

SpaceX launched its sixth test flight of its powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from its Texas facility Starbase on Tuesday, but called off an attempt to catch the booster back on land like it did on the previous launch,

SpaceX launched its sixth test of its massive Starship from South Texas on Tuesday to evaluate critical upgrades from its fifth successful test flight, as plans for another booster "catch and reuse" were scrapped.

In an amusing move, Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its mega rocket, Starship, on its sixth test flight with a banana as its cargo. The banana, tied inside the spacecraft's cargo, was a strategic move made by the space company for the November 20 launch,