BFR Developments

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Forte is expected to bring S40 into the Port of Brownsville some time between 6 am and 9 am central time Wednesday morning, depending on how quickly they can get a pilot aboard to bring it into port.

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And S40 is back home!

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And S40 is back home!

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Hopefully experiencing no survivor guilt. Enjoy the celebrity status.

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in the Brownsville shipping channel

(Photos by Jessica/SparkyInfinity)

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Last night Ship 40 rolled from the Port of Brownsville back to Starbase Production where it was born, completing the circle. Along the way it passed many of the new SpaceX developments in the area. As it passed the new housing development at Rio West, hundreds of SpaceX workers turned out (at 2 am in the morning). Music was playing, people were dancing and the scene was kind of moving.

Leaving the Port. It's being pulled by a giant Oshkosh M1070, a military tractor unit designed to pull very heavy loads. The space nuts call this SpaceX one the Apocalypse Truck, because it looks like something out of Mad Max.

(Photo by Starship Gazer)

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(Photo by Amy Doehring)

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Photo by SpaceX worker Mark Federschmidt taken as 40 stopped at the party in front of Rio West

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Making the turn off Hwy 4 into Sanchez

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Where 40 is now, in the rocket garden, still horizontal to the left of Megabay 2 and to the right of the vertical ship

(Photo by nasaspaceflight.com)

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40's engines are a little worse for wear... people are commenting on the fact that the throats of the engines, between the combustion chamber and nozzle, appear to be sealed with some white material. That's not to protect the engines, which appear to be goners after weeks adrift in salt-water, but rather to prevent anyone from looking in and seeing the injectors, which are one of the most ITAR sensitive aspects of a rocket engine.

Photo by Carlos Nunez

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Today they attached 40's nose to the bridge crane in MB2 and are raising it vertical again! Stand tall, S40!

(Photo by Raptor Roost)

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