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The Sequoia Park Zoo said goodbye this week to its beloved bear Noni, who captured visitors’ hearts with her larger-than-life antics, splashing in water, scrambling up trees and wiggling her heart shaped nose at the sight of peanut butter.

Noni loved playing with bubbles and splashing around in water, and zookeepers often joked about needing to get her a hot tub for her habitat, officials said.

And each test has seen real progress - first with a hitch-free separation, and eventually a successful return, where both the Ship and the Booster made a controlled descent and hovered above the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Mexico respectively until splashing down.

It is why splashing it for 'sportswashing' purposes, according to some critics, seems so worthwhile to the Saudis.

“It’s so simple, just splashing about in the water, playing with the waves pushing against you, he just loves that and he loves you to be there with him.”