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Where is the Tesla in space?
I used to read a lot about Tesla and SpaceX in the news, but I haven’t heard anything about what’s happening with it lately. That’s why my question is: where’s Tesla in space?
Mary Cahill · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
Leave it to Tesla to take on the final frontier! A Tesla Roadster went into space on February 6, 2018. It was Elon Musk’s personal vehicle—the first Tesla ever sold—and it was aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Tesla Roadster, with a spacesuit-clad mannequin named Starman behind the wheel, was put aboard the Falcon Heavy for the purpose of testing how much weight it could hold. For its maiden launch, the rocket—and the Tesla Roadster—went into orbit around the sun between Earth and Mars.
Today, Musk’s cherry-red Roadster continues to orbit around the sun. It’s an estimated 234 million miles away from Earth, 200 million miles away from Mars, and is assumed to still be intact.
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