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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. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ride Feb. 6, 2018 on a Falcon Heavy launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon ...
Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [416] and $397 billion according to Forbes, [417] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX.
The payload, Elon Musk's original Roadster, mounted on the payload adapter inside the payload fairing The Roadster is permanently attached to the upper stage of the Falcon Heavy rocket. The dummy payload for this test flight was a sports car, Tesla Roadster, owned by Elon Musk.
The post Elon Musk’s SpaceX Will Rescue Astronauts Trapped On International Space Station first appeared on Bored Panda. ... electric car maker Tesla, of which Musk is CEO, has been under ...
Elon Musk Antonio Gracias. Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners, a growth firm that has invested in SpaceX, Tesla, the Boring Company, and Neuralink. Luke Nosek. Cofounder of PayPal and ...
According to the Wall Street Journal, in September 2018, the company's stock fell to its lowest price in a year, around the time that CEO Elon Musk smoked marijuana during a live TV interview. [177] As of December 31, 2019, Musk owns 38,658,670 Tesla shares or 20.8% of the company. [178]
The side boosters assigned to Falcon Heavy's first flight were recovered from two prior Falcon 9 missions. SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy on February 6, 2018, delivering a payload comprising Musk's personal Tesla Roadster onto a trajectory reaching the orbit of Mars. [3]