Falcon Heavy Success!!!

Falcon Heavy Launch - Feb 6, 2018

Congrats to SpaceX for a fantastic test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket.  What an unbelievable launch. A dream that has eluded NASA was achieved yet again by SpaceX - the launch and landing of reusable rocket boosters. This time, two of them, side by side, simultaneously!

And the stage-2 rocket is sending one of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadsters on a course toward Mars. Yep, you read that right - Mars. He revealed surreal live video feeds of the car cruising around the planet, complete with a “Don’t Panic” dashboard message, a dummy astronaut in the driver’s seat, and David Bowie on the radio.

The only down-side to a picture perfect launch was the unsuccessful landing of the middle core of SpaceX’s huge rocket which missed the drone ship where it was supposed to land. The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour. Two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press call after the rocket launch (as reported by The Verge).

Visit YouTube for the video coverage of the launch.