[vamsi.kona]

Can this be a monumental and historical moment for Space travel? Will this image become as historical as the pics of moon landing?



Elon musk's SpaceX successfully tested the Falcon Heavy rocket with two of the booster rockets successfully landing back on their pads while one booster rocket failed to land back on the platform. It is said that the reusable rockets would only cost future missions 1/10th of what a regular single use rocket would cost making it very cheap. I have to say Elon musk is one maverick billionaire who puts his money where his mouth is, and by doing so is changing the way we might live in future beyond many peoples imaginations. The word impossible seems to challenge him to pursue what others think is only limited to fiction. And he certainly does have a sense of humour

Standing 23 stories tall, the Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX's largest rocket yet. Its first stage is powered by three core boosters based on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets, with 27 engines (nine per booster) firing in unison to produce about 5 million lbs. of thrust (22,819 kilonewtons) at liftoff. While SpaceX hoped all three boosters would return to Earth and land, the center core missed its mark - a minor hiccup in an otherwise successful launch, Musk said.

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage with a Car to Boot

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[msdivy]

Here is the live feed -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&feature

Originally Posted by vamsi.kona

Can this be a monumental and historical moment for Space travel? Will this image become as historical as the pics of moon landing?

Don't think so. Instead of using a regular payload, Elon Musk donated his spare car - A great advertisement for Tesla !!

[embee]

When Elon Musk, CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, announced that he would be putting his own original Tesla Roadster on top of the very first Falcon Heavy test flight to act as ballast, everyone thought he was joking. And then pictures started showing up of the car being loaded into the payload bay of the rocket.

https://youtu.be/0N-NydZIZYA

And now, he’s gone and done it. This is Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, floating in outer ****ing space. It’s incredibly surreal to see it just, well, floating there. Above all of us. Complete with its passenger, a dummy named Starman who will presumably send telemetry about the heavens back down to Earth.



The infotainment screen, helpfully, contains the familiar refrain from the Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNGEboXfQ08

That is, of course, helpful when staring directly into the abyss of the universe. And just for fun, I love this clip of the two Falcon 9-based boosters landing in perfectly synchronized fashion, ready to be refurbished and re-used:


The Roadster will eventually be pushed into a solar orbit, where it’ll probably be the last car to ever exist after humanity has successfully annihilated its own planet.

One day, when the aliens find this single last remnant of our once great and vast civilization, they will be very confused.


Source: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-actua...ace-1822776401

[vamsi.kona]

Originally Posted by msdivy

Don't think so. Instead of using a regular payload, Elon Musk donated his spare car - A great advertisement for Tesla !!

And that's why I think this might become Iconic. When people look at this image they might immediately be reminded of Falcon or the moment when SpaceX was successful with its heavy rocket launch. You don't get to see earth from space through a cars windshield that often or for that matter a car and earth in the same frame

[sharktale]

Made a wallpaper on a minimal design language! Hope you'll like it :

[Samurai]

Has anyone tried to calculate the FE of this rocket powered Tesla Roadster? I am sure there are unanswered questions on service and parts availability in space.