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If Elon can figure out a way for people to send people safely on Mars to live there and grow food there given Mars' high radiation levels, that would be very impressive.
-need those Matt Damon Martian skills to grow potatoes on Mars.
"Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the asteroid belt," SpaceX rock star CEO Elon Musk tweeted yesterday night (Feb. 6) after a successful launch of his Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Those less familiar with the principles of interplanetary flight might take this as a statement that the rocket, currently the most powerful in the world, and its payload — Musk's midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster blasting David Bowie's "Space Oddity" — have already reached the orbit around the Red Planet.
But that clearly would be too ambitious a feat even for the boundary-breaking entrepreneur. What actually happened is that the rocket overshot its intended orbit and set itself onto a trajectory that would lead it much deeper into space than originally intended, into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
According to astronomer Phil Plait, writing for his Syfy.com blog, the spacecraft was expected to enter an elliptical orbit around the sun, intersecting the orbit of Mars at its farthest point and the orbit of the Earth at its nearest.
"This is a low-energy orbit; that is, it takes the least amount of energy to put something in this orbit from Earth," Plait, who spoke directly to Musk, explained in the blog post from December of last year. "That makes sense for a first flight."
Even if the Falcon Heavy entered the correct orbit, the rocket would still take several months to reach Mars
Congrats to Elon and his SpaceX team! The Falcon Heavy is one powerful rocket.
The live video feed from the "Starman" inside Elon's Tesla roadster is nice
Fake! Earth is flat, this is doctored CGI bullshit..Wake up people! The illuminati, the Bush family, and the rothschilds are pulling the wool over your heads! Paging CharlesInCharge!!
While watching the launch, I had to constantly remind myself that this was real, and not a movie...
__________________ Do Not Put Aftershave on Your Balls. -604CEFIRO Looks like I'm gonna have some hot sex again tonight...OOPS i got the 6 pack. that wont last me the night, I better go back and get the 24 pack! -Turbo E kinda off topic but obama is a dilf - miss_crayon Honest to fucking Christ the easiest way to get a married woman in the mood is clean the house and do the laundry.....I've been with the same girl almost 17 years, ask me how I know. - quasi
it's incredible what this man's achieved, from being one of many children in a broke single mother family, to the creator of paypal, tesla, now this. crazy
i know this launch was a success, but ultimately didn't they fuck up? I mean they were aiming for mars but it overshot into the asteroid field. It's like North Korea wanted to bomb the states, but missed and hit canada and calling it a success lol.
I know it wont happen but imagine them sending tourists up to the moon in the future, overshoot and the people head towards deep space lol.
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