What you see in this video isn’t bad Photoshop. It is in fact a car barrelling along over the earth, looking down at us earthlings.
As over a million people watched the launch of aerospace company SpaceX’s Heavy Falcon rocket – original destination Mars – founder Elon Musk added a cherry coloured Tesla Roadster to the payload. Now this car is moving through the solar system. While the original plan was to orbit around Mars, a new report says it may be headed further out.
Sitting in the driver’s seat is the dummy astronaut “Starman”, with a “Don’t Panic” sign on the dashboard, while playing David Bowie’s popular song “Space Oddity” on the car speakers.
Here is a detailed video of the launch.
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