SpaceX just made history.

[Perez Transport LLC.]

You gringos just don't get it. Crawl space, safe space, or outter space it don't make a fuck bit of difference. Ill get it there.

[BLAKE]

This is ridiculously cool.

[Strychnine]

"If we are successful in this, it is game over for all the other heavy lift rockets," Musk said on a press call Monday evening.

"It will be a real huge downer if it blows up, but if something goes wrong, hopefully it goes wrong far into the mission so we at least learn what goes wrong along the way," Musk told Business Insider space correspondent Dave Mosher on the call. "I'll just be happy if it clears the [launch] pad and doesn't blow the pad to smithereens."

"It's either going to be an exciting success or an exciting failure — I'd say tune in," said Musk. "It's going to be worth your time."

If SpaceX wanted to make Falcon Heavy even more powerful, Musk said the company could bring up the power pretty close to the Saturn V, the most powerful rocket in history. That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

"We could dial it up to as much performance as anyone could ever want, we could add two more side boosters, make it Falcon Super Heavy, get upwards of 9 million pounds of thrust,"

I love the arm on the door - just goin' for a cruise.





There's also a mini model of the car, with Starman, on the dash

[4bangen]

Epic.

[Strychnine]

So is the video I saw earlier right? Is the car itself going to be hurdling into space without the rest of the capsule?

Yup.

Might as well post it here also:

[4bangen]

So is the video I saw earlier right? Is the car itself going to be hurdling into space without the rest of the capsule? How friggen rad! I hope there's a way for them to get an awesome high res picture of this. I know what my background picture will be on my pc if they do.

[mschmoyer]

Will be awesome to watch! Hoping to at least see landing attempts on all 3 boosters. Got the time blocked off and live stream ready.

[Strychnine]

[Strychnine]

[mschmoyer]

I am thinking about going. I am off a couple days and fly for free.

I really want to, but worry there's such a high chance of delays that you'd miss a launch trying to plan a few day trip out there.

[chronical]

Launch date set:
Feb 6, 13:30-16:30 EST
Backup date Feb 7

I am thinking about going. I am off a couple days and fly for free.

[Sgt Beavis]

I'M genuinely excited about this.

It's going to be great to see something this powerful taking off from pad 39A. I've got my fingers crossed that everything works perfectly.

[4bangen]

I'M genuinely excited about this.

[Strychnine]

Launch date set:
Feb 6, 13:30-16:30 EST
Backup date Feb 7

[Sgt Beavis]

The great triple dildo successfully conducted a static fire today. Musk says they may launch within a week.