Falcon Heavy – January 2018

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is basically three times more powerful than anything they’ve launched before and is the most powerful rocket today. It was raised vertical for tests at Kennedy Space Center:

When it launches, the two outer boosters will detach and land almost simultaneously at Cape Canaveral, while the center core will attempt to land on the floating barge in the Atlantic. Almost like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26-CIDaazQ

Because  Elon Musk has a sense of humor, he will be sending his very own original Tesla Roadster into space:

And Elon thinks there’s a fairly real chance the first Falcon Heavy launch will explode:

“I hope it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage. I would consider even that a win, to be honest,”

This is crazy cool stuff, whether it succeeds the first time or not.