Watch: Billionaire Launches Most Powerful Rocket Ever

On Tuesday afternoon, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX company launched the most powerful rocket to ever head into space.

.@SpaceX has successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two 🚀 pic.twitter.com/tRqJ1tl7jT

— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) February 6, 2018

Falcon Heavy's 1st stage is composed of 3 Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, = to about 18 747 aircraft. Only the Saturn V moon rocket, last flown in 1973, delivered more payload to orbit- @SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ODZ4XyjKc3

— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) February 6, 2018

The Washington Post reported, “As a promotional stunt, SpaceX founder Elon Musk loaded the Falcon Heavy with his own cherry red Tesla Roadster carrying a spacesuit-clad mannequin in the driver’s seat the company named ‘Starman.’ Musk said he planned to send the convertible, built by another one of his companies, into an orbit around the sun that would take it near Mars.”

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