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SpaceX launches Tesla into space, first car to orbit the sun

Yes, this is a car in space! A red Tesla Roadster is orbiting the sun, with a dummy astronaut in the driver's seat. The vehicle hitched a ride into space in the payload of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket.Feb.07.2018

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  • Trump: We will have the Space Force, 'separate, but equal'

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  • Virgin Galactic just got one step closer to space tourism

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  • Astronaut Alan Bean, 4th man to walk on the moon, dies at 86

    00:23

  • NASA sends InSight lander to Mars for first geological survey

    02:33

  • NASA launches InSight lander for a mission to Mars

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