Tesla's Elon Musk Delivers On ONE Promise — A Tesla Will DEFINITELY Orbit Mars

Many folks located in SoCal had an interesting Friday night when the SpaceX launch happened and created a large streak across the sky. From some social media reports, some folks were a bit alarmed.

I guess this is what happens when you've got the North Koreans pissed at you.

That said, not too long ago Tesla's Elon Musk said that his SpaceX rocket would feature a Tesla Roadster as its payload. And, unlike his other forecasts, it turns out this one is being delivered on.

In recent days Musk posted on his Instagram photos of the Roadster loaded into the payload department of the rocket. As can be seen, it's the original Tesla Roadster and not the all-new concept we've seen.

A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring. Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Dec 22, 2017 at 10:47am PST

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MDarringer - 12/24/2017 11:00:41 AM

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This is just Elon with his hand metaphorically in his pants once again.

qwertyfla1 - 12/24/2017 12:00:08 PM

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Sure lets litter space with more floating junk and release more ozone depleting pollutants all for the sake of a stupid PR stunt to deflect from the numerous issues with Tesla. Musk is no environmentalist but rather a capitalist whom only pretends to be green.

MDarringer - 12/24/2017 12:15:15 PM

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amen

TheWay - 12/24/2017 12:28:20 PM

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@qwertyfla1 - Just out of curiosity, was any common sense used before writing that? Musk is not sending out a 100 million dollar rocket as a publicity stunt for Tesla. It is the first launch of the Falcon Heavy which is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn. This would be a maiden launch of the rocket (so a decent chance of it going boom). It will also act as a verification launch for the military and NASA. Normally you just put a steel block in there, Musk just chose to put a Tesla Roadster in there for fun. (It is a promotion for SpaceX to get people more interested in space, not for Tesla. Tesla is actually doing very well as Model 3's are now going out in droves).

PS The Roadster will fly in a billion year orbit towards Mars. (aka, it ain't clogging Earth's orbit)

Of course you'll probably ignore all this common sense and continue your hate, sigh.

SanJoseDriver - 1/1/2018 5:17:09 PM

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Most people here are cynics that just want to defend their jobs at auto-dealers. Sending a Roadster to Mars is like dropping a grain of sand in the ocean.

7msynthetic - 12/25/2017 10:50:47 AM

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He forgot to say "WITH YOUR MONEY"