Falcon Heavy Blasts off at the speed of light

Falcon Heavy is it's name. Space X is the company which Elon Musk, the creator of Tesla Motor Vehicles, owns and just launched the largest and fastest rocket known to man into space. He also launched the Tesla Roadster on the tip of the rocket and it's intended target is Mars. Shortly after leaving the Earth's Atmosphere Elon Tweeted out that they have overshot the target Mars and Falcon Heavy is actually headed out towards the Astroid belt. It Cruised for about 6 hours to show off special moves to the US Air Force, and then initiated its final burn towards Mars. That final burn however, was a little too powerful and shot it farther than Mars' orbit. It looks like it might be on target to hit a dwarf planet Ceres in our solar system. What ever happens to the car we will keep you up to date on what happens. 

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