After its launch, the company's founder, Elon Musk, called for "a new space race.".
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida â Just hours after SpaceX thundered its first Falcon Heavy rocket into space and showed off its launch system as the most powerful of its kind on Tuesday, the company's founder, Elon Musk, called for a new space race.
"I think it's going to open up a sense of possibility," Musk said of his freshly demonstrated 23-story launcher.
SpaceX's behemoth rocket pushed off Launchpad 39A here at Kennedy Space Center at 3:45 p.m.
The car broadcast incredible views of Earth for several hours as it slowly tumbled through space.
But the main attraction of Falcon Heavy was arguably its three 16-story reusable boosters, the force behind Musk's call for renewed competition in space.
"I'm just curious if you see yourself in a race with Blue Origin," Tim Fernholz at Quartz asked Musk during the press conference. »