SpaceX animation shows what Elon Musk’s Roadster will look like on its way toward Mars
Roughly 24 hours before SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is supposed to blast off for the first time ever, CEO Elon Musk just shared an animated video of what it will look like when the new giant rocket releases a Tesla Roadster into space.
The animation is a sort of updated version of the computer-generated Falcon Heavy video that the company released a few years ago. But this new version shows roughly where the all-electric sports car will sit within the rocket’s payload fairing, and includes a new section at the end that illustrates what it will look like when the car separates from the spacecraft.
Around or shortly after the Falcon Heavy’s three booster stages touch back down on Earth, the rocket’s payload stage will pop the two halves of the…
