An apparently leak photoemerged on Redditlate last night purportedly showing Elon Musk ’s Tesla Roadster getting fitted atop a Falcon Heavy cargo capsule . Which gravel the head : Is Musk really serious about all this ?
This whole thing got started in former December when the SpaceX CEO announce on Twitter that he was plan to use his own personal Tesla Roadster as the dummy payload forthe inaugural Falcon Heavy Launch , which is schedule for January 2018 . Musk , who ’s actually skeptical the Falcon Heavy will evenmake it into Earth ’s orbiton its first flight , suppose the payload wouldlaunch on a trajectory towards Mars .
This next - gen rocket will be capable of lift a 140,700 pound ( 63,800 kg ) payload to low Earth orbit , or a 37,000 pound ( 16,800 kilo ) payload to Mars . So what better way to bend the muscle of the Falcon Heavy by having it fling a 4,000 - pound Tesla Roadster into the Great Beyond ?
load will be my midnight cerise Tesla Roadster act Space Oddity . Destination is Mars sphere . Will be in recondite distance for a billion years or so if it does n’t blow up on ascent .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)December 2 , 2017
Trouble is , The Verge report that Musklater denied the whole thing . But then , speak to Ars Technica after that , Musk and another Space X official saidit was very much on . Fact is , we do n’t know if Musk is being serious or not , but we ’re not one to throw it past him . The man seems thrilled with the idea of his aphrodisiacal midnight cherry tree Roadster drifting for eternity through the profoundness of space .
I enjoy the view of a car stray obviously incessantly through space and perhaps being discovered by an exotic race millions of age in the future
As for the authenticity of this picture , the image appears to haveoriginated from this anon. Reddit accountbefore getting picked upby the SpaceX subreddit . The pic shows what seems to be a red Tesla Roadster atop a Payload Attach Fitting ( PAF)—one that looks virtually identical to the PAF shown inSpaceX ’s Falcon User ’s scout .
give way that a sports car has never been shot into space , it ’s difficult to know how it would be oriented as load . This seems as good an predilection as any . There ’s nothing to directly suggest the image itself is fake , but there ’s nothing proving it ’s real either . And even if it is real , this shot could have been puzzle as an elaborate continuation of Musk ’s weird joke .
We reached out to SpaceX and Elon Musk for comment and will update this post should we get a response .
Update 2:40 pm : demand if the pic was material , Musk respond to Gizmodo with this DM :
So Photoshop 🙂
That settles that , then ?
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