{"id":28794,"date":"2017-12-23T17:46:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=28794"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:53:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T12:23:56","slug":"elon-musk-seriously-sending-tesla-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/elon-musk-seriously-sending-tesla-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Is (Seriously) Sending A Tesla Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s a thin line between genius and madness, and nobody who straddles it with more panache than Elon Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">A few weeks ago, Musk had seemingly joked on Twitter that the next payload for the Falcon Heavy will be his personal Tesla Roadster. The car would be playing David Bowie&#8217;s Space Oddity, and once jettisoned by the rocket, would orbit around Mars for the next billion years or so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn\u2019t blow up on ascent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/936782477502246912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Everyone had assumed it was a joke, a clever mash up the two flagship products of his two successful companies. Nobody sends a car into orbit just\u00a0for the kicks of having Space Oddity soundlessly play in space for the next billion years. But nobody is Elon Musk either, because Musk has\u00a0just shared pictures from the SpaceX facility showing a red Tesla being strapped on to the Falcon Heavy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy-3.png?resize=575%2C550\" alt=\"tesla falcon heavy 3\" width=\"575\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy-3.png?w=575&amp;ssl=1 575w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy-3.png?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy-3.png?resize=500%2C478&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring,&#8221; said Musk. &#8220;Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.\u00a0The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.&#8221; Musk dubbed his little project &#8220;A red car for a red planet.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28796 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy.png?resize=594%2C586\" alt=\"tesla falcon heavy\" width=\"594\" height=\"586\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy.png?w=594&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy.png?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy.png?resize=500%2C493&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tesla-falcon-heavy.png?resize=83%2C83&amp;ssl=1 83w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 594px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 594\/586;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">This is, of course, completely bonkers. Space programs were usually the domain of stern scientists who wear lab coats and shroud their programs in secrecy, but Elon Musk has changed all that. Not only is he announcing his rockets&#8217; payloads on Twitter, but his special brand of whimsy drawing attention to the limitless possibilities of space travel like nothing else. Musk is making space cool again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">And if it takes sacrificing a Tesla so that it can revolve around Mars till the end of time, so be it. Godspeed, little red Tesla Roadster. We&#8217;ll be playing Space Oddity here from earth to speed you along.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thin line between genius and madness, and nobody who straddles it with more panache than Elon Musk. 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