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BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — This week at Starbase, demolition continues at the build site.

Picking up where we left off earlier in the week, crews moved and raised the Lieber, LR 11, 200 crane to the west side of the high bay with the crane in its new position.

Now, demolition continued, starting with the removal of a portion of the north wall of the high bar on top of the high bay.

As workers cut into the structure, the crane is put through its paces as floor pieces were removed, along with other portions of the inner walls.

Later that night, as Mega Bay One's door opened and Booster 17 was lifted and lowered onto the transport stand.

The second shift demo crews continued to cut into the high base structure.

Around that same time, another double-stacked section of Ship 37 was moved into Mega Bay 2 to be stacked with the rest of the ship.

Over at the launch site's tank farm is just like Groundhog Day with heat exchanger manifolds and other cryogenic piping being lifted and installed.

More large-diameter deluge piping and flame trench wall segments also made their way through the D2 gate as SpaceX pushes for Pad B completion.

Later that afternoon, the wall segment was promptly put in place.

In an unexpected turn of events, the second liquid oxygen pump motor was removed for unknown reasons.

Another one of the new vertical vaporizers was also removed from the tank farm expansion.

It was then loaded onto a truck and hauled off-site to be either repaired or possibly replaced.

About four hours after the second locks, the pump motor was removed.

The pump itself was removed from the sump and placed into position five.

The chopsticks on Tower 2 also went through a few lateral tests as they're fine tuned for their upcoming first use.

Finally, for this week, after a seemingly successful static fire on Booster 14, it was lifted off the launch mount and placed onto a transporter to be analyzed for its possible historical Flight Nine launch.

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