The billionaire, who is CEO of private rocket company SpaceX, said the firm's Falcon Heavy spacecraft would carry his 2008 cherry red Tesla Roadster on a billion-year journey through space 'if it doesn't explode into tiny pieces'. Pictured is an artist's impression of the car strapped into the rocket's main module before launch
Once the Falcon Heavy entered space, two of the 70-metre- (230-foot) long craft's booster rockets separated off and returned to Earth at Cape Canaveral in controlled landings (pictured in an advance artist's impression posted to Instagram by Musk)
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