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12-03-2017, 02:40 AM
Yes, it's true: SpaceX is sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars aboard the Falcon Heavy
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UPDATED Dec. 2, 2017 at 5:08 p.m. EST:A SpaceX official that isn't Elon Musk has confirmed that the Tesla payload is real and expected to launch to Mars' vicinity on the Falcon Heavy.*
Musk appears to have been trolling The Verge and generally confusing all of us. Scroll down for the rest of the story.
UPDATED Dec. 2, 2017 at 11:33 a.m. PST:Elon Musk has walked back his claim that he intends to send a Tesla Roadster to orbit Mars with the upcoming launch of the Falcon HeavyMusk originally confirmed with The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/1/16726822/spacex-falcon-heavy-tesla-roadster-launch-elon-musk) that "it's so real," and has since told the publication that he "totally made it up." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/02/spacex-tesla-roadster-mars-space-oddity-elon-musk/)
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UPDATED Dec. 2, 2017 at 5:08 p.m. EST:A SpaceX official that isn't Elon Musk has confirmed that the Tesla payload is real and expected to launch to Mars' vicinity on the Falcon Heavy.*
Musk appears to have been trolling The Verge and generally confusing all of us. Scroll down for the rest of the story.
UPDATED Dec. 2, 2017 at 11:33 a.m. PST:Elon Musk has walked back his claim that he intends to send a Tesla Roadster to orbit Mars with the upcoming launch of the Falcon HeavyMusk originally confirmed with The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/1/16726822/spacex-falcon-heavy-tesla-roadster-launch-elon-musk) that "it's so real," and has since told the publication that he "totally made it up." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/02/spacex-tesla-roadster-mars-space-oddity-elon-musk/)
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