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From what was a model rocket of Falcon Heavy, now has become reality as the rocket flew into space on the 6th of February 2018. In addition, attached to the rocket, was a Tesla along with a dummy by the name of Starman. 100,000 of people including Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX were there to witness the rocket flying up into the sky. After Falcon Heavy reached the outer atmosphere of Earth, the rocket's boosters detached and the side boosters changed courses so that it could head back to Earth. This process took less than 10 minutes. The Tesla and Starman are now left in space and are to stay for the next hundreds of years. Falcon Heavy is now the most powerful rocket in the operation due to its success and is capable of holding more weight since the rocket Saturn V. Along with that, the Falcon Heavy costs about 90 million to launch, the least amount of money, compared to others. Others in comparison would be Delta IV Heavy at 400 million and SLS, at 1 billion.
All in all, technology has come a long way to a stage where we can send rockets to space along with a Tesla and this might just mean further innovations in the future.
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