Elon Musk Sends Car To Space

Its stereo was programmed to play david bowie s space oddity on repeat as it travels for millions of years through space.

Elon musk sends car to space. A tesla car was sent to mars on a spacex falcon rocket heavy. The car and rocket are products of tesla and spacex respectively both companies headed by elon musk. Elon musk s tesla roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the february 2018 falcon heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the sun. The luxury car against the blackness of.

A nearly indestructible disk carrying a digital copy of isaac. It is the first production car launched into. If all goes well it and a dummy driver named starman will be sent into orbit around the sun. A bog step has been reached and this launch was one of diff.

The roadster is still cruising around our solar system on an elliptical path around. The sports car in the nosecone was one of mr musk s own tesla roadsters. Musk s car fits comfortably here as well as in the context of andy warhol s repeated screen prints it s an image designed for the profusion of mass media. Musk initially said he wanted to send the car to mars orbit which could raise concerns about planetary protection.

In february of 2018 elon musk launched his personal tesla roadster into space on spacex s falcon heavy rocket. February 15 2020 it s been two years since elon musk sent his tesla roadster into space on a falcon heavy rocket from spacex. In those two years the tesla has gone on quite a journey. The payload on the inaugural test flight was rather appropriately a product of musk s other brainchild tesla.

In february of 2018 elon musk launched his 100 000 tesla roadster into space on the spacex falcon heavy rocket. That s the concept of preventing contamination of worlds in our solar system with. The electric car a red convertible roadster is slated to be deployed six hours after liftoff. The 2008 model roadster is personally owned by and previously used by musk for commuting to work.

Starman a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupies the driver s seat.