US space flight company SpaceX on February 6, 2018 launched the world’s most powerful operational rocket ‘Falcon Heavy’ into the space. The Falcon Heavy blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States.
Falcon Heavy’s smooth takeoff wasn’t the only surprising thing about this launch, but also SpaceX managed to guide two of the Falcon Heavy’s first-stage rocket boosters to land straight back on Earth. They landed in unison at a Kennedy Space Centre landing pad.
Falcon Heavy carried a red Tesla Roadster car belonging to SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk into space. The car was outfitted with a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit, a high-data storage unit containing Isaac Asimov’s science fiction book series, the Foundation Trilogy, and a plaque bearing the names of 6000 SpaceX employees.
Earlier, the only rocket that delivered more payload into the space was Saturn V moon rocket, which was last flown in 1973.