'Starman' set to take a ride into outer space in a Tesla Roadster
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Tesla’s stock prices may have dropped out of their highest orbit in recent weeks, but one of its sports cars is set to take a trip into outer space on Tuesday.
And it’s bringing a passenger along for the ride.
Elon Musk posted a new image of the old Tesla Roadster his rocket company SpaceX is using as a dummy payload on the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, and it now has (what’s hopefully) a dummy wearing one of the company’s prototype space suits in the driver’s seat.
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Musk calls him Starman, and he previously said the car would be playing the David Bowie song with that title during the launch.
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There’s even a miniature version of the red roadster and driver mounted to the dashboard.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Several cameras appear to be mounted to the vehicle, so it’s likely that video of its insertion into what Musk said will be a “billion year elliptical Mars orbit” will be released afterward.
If the Florida launch is successful, the Falcon Heavy will become the most powerful rocket in and above the world. Space X plans to land all three of its reusable boosters, two on land and one on a drone ship at sea.
UPDATE: Musk tweeted out an animation of the launch and what the Tesla will look like heading to Mars.
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