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@elonmusk: View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, There is a Car in Orbit

02/06/2018 5:20 PM
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Re: @elonmusk: View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit

02/06/2018 6:00 PM

Let's hope nobody steals it....

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Re: @elonmusk: View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit

02/06/2018 6:39 PM

It's the first time anybody has put 100,000 miles on their car in 6 hours!

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Re: @elonmusk: View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit

02/07/2018 3:01 AM

One hopes that the Statutory Off Road Declaration form has been correctly completed and lodged with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency!

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Re: @elonmusk: View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, There is a Car in Orbit

02/08/2018 8:12 AM

Yes, and when the aliens show up in a few million years and find that thing, they will know the humanoids on the blue planet were wacko.

To heck with the car stunt. did that overall rocket/payload design look familiar to anyone? Was this a super scale Estes model rocket?

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View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, There is a Car in Orbit

02/08/2018 11:31 AM

Mounted on the payload adapter, it looks like the ultimate participation trophy.

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