On Feb. 6, 2018, SpaceX launched the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, a booster used for deep space missions, with a special payload on board: a cherry red 2008 Tesla Roadster owned by Elon Musk. The sports car was permanently mounted on the rocket’s second stage and had a spacesuit-clad dummy named “Starman” sitting in its driver’s seat.

The car and its dummy driver, weighing nearly 3,000 pounds together, was to demonstrate the Falcon Heavy was capable of launching heavy payloads towards Mars in future missions. Musk said at the time he wanted to inspire the public about the “possibility of something new happening in space.”

Since launch, tracking where the Roadster is in........

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