
At liftoff, Falcon Heavy will become the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of 2, being able to lift twice the payload than the Delta IV Heavy. Only the Saturn V rocket, the one that brought astronauts to the Moon, delivered more payload into orbit around the Earth.

The side cores on Falcon Heavy are both flight-proven boosters previously supporting the CRS-9 and Thaicom 8 missions. The 2 boosters will be attempting a landing at the 2 landing zones (LZ-1 & LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral about 8 minutes after liftoff. The core booster will attempt a landing at sea on the droneship "Of Course I Still Love You".
Falcon Heavy will launch Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster as a mass simulator. The destination of the Tesla is an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the Sun. It will be playing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" as it travels endlessly through space. SpaceX didn't want to just launch something boring such as water ballasts or steel, so they decided to launch something exciting that would grab people's attention.
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