The launch of the Falcon Heavy has not done without overlays. And still it is a great success

6 February at 23:45 Moscow time the carrier rocket Falcon Heavy launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral — the site where the moon went "Apollo 11". She did not carry any payload, not counting the Tesla Roadster, which was supposed to go into space.

For a start, among others, watched Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon in 1969 after Neil Armstrong, and with it millions of people. Broadcast of the launch on YouTube looked at more than 2.3 million people, is the second-most popular online-streaming service after a jump from the stratosphere by Felix Baumgartner in 2012.

The launch was quite nervous, he was repeatedly transferred from-for a strong wind. After two and a half minute flight from the missile body disconnected two of the accelerator and successfully landed on the concrete pad at Cape Canaveral. Both of these steps once flew into space and re-used. Another accelerator is disconnected from the second stage three minutes after liftoff. The second stage worked a little less than half an hour, and then cherry Tesla Roadster went into free flight.

The car in space was filmed by three cameras, they passed image for more than four hours, and then online stream is interrupted. Tesla flies in space with an open top, driving a car, a mannequin in a spacesuit SpaceX. On the screen of the onboard computer "Tesla" SpaceX put the words "Don't Panic" is the key phrase from the satirical novels of the English writer Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". Elon Musk has admitted that she loves this book and said that the concept of the spaceship "heart of gold" from these books — his favorite theory of science fiction.

If you believe the Mask, stereo system in the "Tesla" is played in a circle a song of David Bowie's "Space Oddity". However, the sound in space does not apply, so to hear Bowie's impossible. Another reference to the work of British singer — name dummy. SpaceX called it Shturmanom in honor of the other songs Bowie.

Serious startup problems did not happen, he is recognized as successful.

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