What SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch means for the future of spaceflight
 

What SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch means for the future of spaceflight
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SpaceX had a pretty big day on Tuesday.*

The Elon Musk-founded company successfully launched its maiden flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket and landed two of its three main boosters back on Earth after sending a Tesla Roadster to space.*

With this launch, SpaceX and Musk effectively made a long-shot rocket dream come true before our eyes and made good on a promise made more than five years ago.

SEE ALSO: Watching SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch to space was like seeing into the future


"We tried to cancel the Falcon Heavy program three times at SpaceX," Musk said during a briefing after the launch. The technical challenges associated with building the rocket were much worse than the company initially bargained for, but none-the-less, Musk and his team pulled through.* Read more...

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