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There's A Car In Space; Guess Who Owns It? by V7place(m): 6:54am On Oct 24, 2020
There's a car in Space. It's a red electric convertible and has a mannequin called Starman sitting in the drivers seat. It was sent into Space 2 years ago on Feb 6, 2018.
Guess who owns it?

Of course; no one else but the real life Iron man himself: Elon Musk. It's a cherry red Tesla Roadster and was used as test dummy on a Falcon Heavy rocket as a stunt during the SpaceX rocket's first test launch .

When rockets are sent into space to test them, they are usually loaded with random stuff to serve as needed weight and this being Space X's test of its rocket; Elon decided to put a mannequin in a sports car that his company Tesla makes.
During its first few days in space , it sent back a lot of pictures of Earth.

On October 7th 2020, it passed about 4.5 million miles away from Mars , so actually closer to Mars than it is to Earth as it orbits around the sun.
We can't see it anymore, but it definitely no longer looks the way it was two years ago as "the harsh solar radiation environment between the planets would probably have wrecked all the exposed organic materials (red paint, rubber tires, leather seats and the like), breaking the carbon bonds that hold them together. And without Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetic shielding, even the robust plastics in the windshield and carbon fiber materials would start to disintegrate. Over the course of decades or centuries, the car should be reduced to its aluminum frame and sturdiest glass parts — assuming none of them get destroyed in impacts with passing space rocks." reports Live Science website.

The car itself is also blaring loud music!

The Tesla Roadster is considered the fastest production car and a new one retails for about $200,000.
The 2020 edition of the Roadster can go 245 miles on battery life.
Safe travels Mr Mannequin Starman!

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Re: There's A Car In Space; Guess Who Owns It? by Stephenomozzy(m): 7:02am On Oct 24, 2020


It's not as if I'm not seeing the science o,
Lawd, you just go throway $200,000 motor for outer space?

Money get mouth jare.

Guy, be like Elon o
Re: There's A Car In Space; Guess Who Owns It? by Juan80: 7:09am On Oct 24, 2020
Dis one fit carry me and my family reach Kuwait?
Re: There's A Car In Space; Guess Who Owns It? by yanabasee(m): 7:16am On Oct 24, 2020
While Nigerians are looking for Canada visas, Canadians and other advance citizens are looking for a ticket to the space.....



Life must balance oh!!!!

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