Tesla Sports Car Orbits Earth. Musk launched the car on board the rocket as it played David Bowie songs on loop. The Earth was proven not flat hundreds of years ago so the Tesla sports car launched into space hardly proved anything new regarding that issue.
SpaceX's Starman looking down at Earth from his gleaming red sports car. The mannequin "Starman" and its red Tesla Roadster have sped beyond the orbit of Mars after launching into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. After surviving a five-hour journey through the Van Allen Belt -- a region of high.
Yes, an actual car launched at a That makes it the most powerful rocket on Earth, viable for launching heavy satellites and future space stations into orbit.
ELON Musk is going to blast his original Tesla sports car into SPACE on a megarocket - and it will remain in orbit around Mars for a BILLION years.
See live orbital position of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and the Starman. It was despatched into an elliptical orbit around the Sun that extends as far out as the Planet Mars. Originally, the car was to drift in an Earth-Mars orbit.