As you know, Starship landed in the Indian Ocean in one piece after its 13th test flight. It fortunately remained afloat til SpaceX could recover and move it to a safe place where they could look it over . . and then they decided to actually bring it back to Starbase, Texas, half a world away.
How would you do that? In the video below, there's someone who knows.
He describes himself as a "shipping guy," meaning that he knows what will be involved in transporting a big spaceship across oceans. He mentions that, in spite of its reputation of being huge, Starship is not huge compared to the huger ship that will bring it back, a "semi-submersible heavy transport" vessel by the name of Forte (pronounced for-tay).
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