SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy - world's most powerful rocket



Luciana and I watched the launch this afternoon. It was so exciting! Apollo 11 , that went to the moon, launched from the same site in 1969.


This was even more amazing. Two of the first stage rocket boosters landed upright back on Earth at the same time at the Kennedy Space Center launching Pad. That was incredible to see.

 The spacecraft will journey through Earth’s Van Allen radiation belt over the coming hours. If it succeeds, Mr. Musk’s sports car will head away from Earth onto an elliptical orbit around the sun that extends as far out as Mars’s orbit.




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