On Tuesday 6th of February 2018, SpaceX pulled off quite the feat when it launched the Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX confirms it lost the center core, this doesn’t diminish the success of the mission that began in Florida, United States of America.

The world’s most powerful new space rocket blasted into space above Florida’s east coast on Tuesday afternoon on a trailblazing deep-space mission.

The Falcon Heavy, which will provide the United States a heavy-lift capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era, made a flawless ascent through clear blue skies, with at least two of its three reusable boosters returning safely to earth.

The spectacular, flame-heavy launch was watched by an estimated half-million spectators who packed the beaches and other key vantage points around Florida’s space coast for the biggest fireworks show since the retirement of Nasa’s space shuttle fleet in 2011.

Falcon’s upper stage and test payload, the whimsical touch of Musk’s $100,000 cherry red Tesla Roadster sports car, and a dummy in its driver’s seat called Starman rocking to David Bowie’s Life on Mars, continued, zapping through the Van Allen Belt.

Pictures of the car heading into space with the Earth below gave the triumphant launch a surreal quality. From there, it will journey on through a six-month, 400m-kilometre trip to a solar orbit, for more than a billion years.

Musk hopes the Falcon Heavy will help with interplanetary exploration and assist the mission of Nasa, the American space agency, as it works towards a return to the moon for the first time since 1972, and eventually landing humans on Mars before the middle of the century.

“Falcon Heavy heading to space on our test flight, building on the history of Saturn V/Apollo and returning launchpad 39A to interplanetary missions,” a SpaceX announcer said as the rocket lifted off, referring to the historic launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre from which the first manned moon mission took flight in July 1969.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/06/spacex-falcon-heavy-center-core-lost/
Source: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7nx9/what-happened-to-spacex-falcon-heavy-central-core-third-rocket
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/06/falcon-heavy-spacex-rocket-florida-launch

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