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The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, roared into space through clear blue skies in its debut test flight on Tuesday from a Florida launch site where moon missions once began, in another milestone for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company.
The 23-story-tall jumbo rocket, carrying a cherry red Tesla Roadster automobile into space as a mock payload, thundered off its launchpad in billowing clouds of steam and rocket exhaust at 3:45 pm (2045 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
Boisterous cheering could be heard from SpaceX workers at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where a livestream feed of the event originated. Several hundred spectators packed a campground near Cocoa Beach, 5 miles (8 km) from the space center, to watch the blastoff.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, February 6, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)
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Adding another milestone for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX's Falcon Heavy roared into space through clear blue skies in its debut test flight. (Photo: Reuters)
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It was conducted from the same site used by NASA's towering Saturn 5 rockets to carry Apollo missions to the moon more than 40 years ago. (Photo: Reuters)
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The launch was so powerful that it shook the walls of the press trailer at the complex. (Photo: Reuters)
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Falcon Heavy is designed to place up to 70 tons into standard low-Earth orbit at a cost of $90 million per launch. (Photo: Reuters)
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The solid rocket boosters of SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket comes back for landing at the Kennedy Space Center. (Photo: Reuters)
