SpaceX's successful launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket has been described as a "big relief" by co-founder Elon Musk.
The US entrepeneur had only given the launch a 50 percent chance of liftoff and told reporters afterwards: "I had this image of this giant explosion on the pad, with wheels bouncing down the road and the logo landing somewhere with a thud."
He added: "But fortunately, that's not what happened. Crazy things come true."
Mr Musk later tweeted out a video of the the Tesla Roadster heading towards Mars with one of his electric cars in the payload cargo and David Bowie’s hit song “Space Oddity” playing on loop.
The car was last seen on SpaceX’s live broadcast of the launch, flying over the breathtaking blue planet below it, before the stream cut out in orbit around Earth, captured from SpaceX’s mission control.
Mr Musk says he is now hoping for a "space race" by private ventures and other countries - a nod to the 1960s Cold War contest between the United States and the Soviet Union.
I recently found out that this brilliant and absolutely talented young man is from my Tuulo, so naturally this is one of the many victories for Beesha
The US entrepeneur had only given the launch a 50 percent chance of liftoff and told reporters afterwards: "I had this image of this giant explosion on the pad, with wheels bouncing down the road and the logo landing somewhere with a thud."
He added: "But fortunately, that's not what happened. Crazy things come true."
Mr Musk later tweeted out a video of the the Tesla Roadster heading towards Mars with one of his electric cars in the payload cargo and David Bowie’s hit song “Space Oddity” playing on loop.
The car was last seen on SpaceX’s live broadcast of the launch, flying over the breathtaking blue planet below it, before the stream cut out in orbit around Earth, captured from SpaceX’s mission control.
Mr Musk says he is now hoping for a "space race" by private ventures and other countries - a nod to the 1960s Cold War contest between the United States and the Soviet Union.
I recently found out that this brilliant and absolutely talented young man is from my Tuulo, so naturally this is one of the many victories for Beesha

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