SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation. This rocket has capable of reaching the Moon or Mars some day. SpaceX is also going to make history by launching the world's fourth electric car into space.
According to SpaceX, when the Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be "the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two."
Only NASA's Saturn V rocket, which carried six crews — and three electric cars — to the moon almost 50 years ago. (The space shuttle had more thrust at launch than the Falcon Heavy, but had a lower payload capacity.) Watch SpaceX Launch Falcon Heavy at 1:30 pm on Tuesday.
The design of the Falcon Heavy is based on the design of the proven Falcon 9, but its configuration is new and so it can carry new risks. The rocket's 27 Merlin engines must fire in unison and the two side-mounted boosters need to separate from the core — something SpaceX has never done in flight.
Moving towards the Roadster, Musk, the CEO and product architect at Telsa(company), said it was his personal "midnight cherry" Roadster.
Photographs of the electric car roadster taken prior to it being encapsulated in its protective fairing for launch revealed a few more details.
Strapped into the driver's seat is a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit of the same black and white style as SpaceX designed for NASA astronauts to soon wear for flights on the company's Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station.
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