Tesla Roadster in SpaceX rocket

Elon Musk shows off the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX will send beyond Mars - The Verge

A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring. Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.

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