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Very few people know that the reason we launched my old Tesla Roadster to orbit Earth and Mars is that the probability of failure was very high and we didn’t want to risk anything valuable
Tesla Owners Silicon Valley@teslaownersSV· Aug 24, 2026Elon Musk reveals why he launched his Tesla Roadster into space.
"I fully expected this flight to fail."
Musk was talking about Falcon Heavy's first flight.
Since he thought the rocket might fail, he didn't want to put something boring on top of it.
Instead, SpaceX launched
05:44 PM · August 24, 2026 · 707.9K views
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