Elon Musk's Starman can be seen sitting in $100,000 Tesla Roadster navigating Earth. His plan is for the car, with the message 'don't panic' on the dashboard and David Bowie playing through the speakers, to cruise through high-energy radiation belts that circuit the planet, towards deep space
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