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TIL that SpaceX's two autonomous spaceport drone ships
TIL that SpaceX's two autonomous spaceport drone ships "Of Course I Still Love You" (on which the Falcon 9 landed) and "Just Read The Instructions" are named after Culture spacecrafts from Iain M. Banks novel "The Player of Games as a posthumous tribute to Banks by Elon Musk.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series
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