This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black.

Why was there a banana?

Bob tells me it was a plastic banana, floating freely in the enormous cargo bay of super heavy starship for the successful six tests.

Why a banana?

What is it doing? It's attached by strings. It was

floating around in near zero-g gravity. Bob answers that. Had to do with FAA requirements,

with cargo, with approving for cargo in the bay. That will probably be initially, will be starlings.

A floating banana, and Bob solves the mystery for me.

I did puzzle.

Yeah, it's zero-g gravity, but why a banana?

Here's Bob.

More of this tonight.

The second thing they did is, in SpaceX's irreverent way, they decided to put a payload

on this particular starship. It was a single plastic banana suspended by cords in the payload bay,

which is very tiny in this giant payload bay. But they did it, they said, to fulfill the FAA's

payload requirements so that it can approve, certify, and

certify future payloads like Starlink.

So they put this in there, and they tested how it worked, and they were able to demonstrate

that their payload system is going to work as well, and that was the success.

So overall, this has been an amazing success.