🚀🚗Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster - Starman - has reached Mars

🚀🚗Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster - Starman - has reached Mars

The Tesla car and mannequin in the driver's seat launched on a SpaceX rocket in 2018, has now reached the Red Planet.

Mathias Sundin
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Do you want to understand the future of space with the help of our experts, astronaut Christer Fuglesang and future astronaut Karin Nilsdotter? Read more here.

In 2018 launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space heading for Mars. It was used as a dummy payload on the test flight of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Reaching space it became an artificial satellite of the Sun, called Starman after the mannequin in the driver's seat.

Now Starman has reached the Red Planet.

The car is an original 2008 Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk used for commuting for work.

Do you want to understand the future of space with the help of our experts, astronaut Christer Fuglesang and future astronaut Karin Nilsdotter? Read more here.

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