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SpaceX Stuns the World
Even without customers, the Falcon Heavy is a milestone in American spacefaring.
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Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images"It seems surreal to me," said Elon Musk, proprietor of SpaceX, and for once he was understating things.
On Tuesday, his company blasted a 230-foot rocket into orbit, returned its two side boosters to Earth for a flawlessly synchronized landing, and -- with exquisite nerd flair -- propelled Musk's own Tesla Roadster toward deep space, where it's expected to orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years.