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.
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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.*
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