A giant leap in the development of civilization - super-heavy rocket, created by private enterprise, for the first time put into orbit a payload. A new era of space technology has begun.

What did the Mask for the first time and what a wonderful start:

1. Super-heavy rocket, the Falcon Heavy can bring into orbit 64 tons of cargo. This is two and a half times more than can lift the heaviest and currently used rocket "Delta". This load allows to launch a heavy spacecraft, station, equip the expedition, introduce large quantities of satellites in orbit. Height Falcon Heavy-70 m, diameter 12.2 m, total weight 1420 tons.
2. This is not the world's largest superheavy missile - the American Saturn has become the largest, the second behind it - the Soviet "Energy". But these projects were very expensive, to use them for commercial launches was unprofitable, and because the last launch of "Energy" took place in 1988, and 30 years superheavy missiles were not launched.
3. A revolutionary change in design is the ability to return the launch pad to earth for reuse. This greatly reduces the cost. In the Falcon Heavy launch, two stages were used for the first time, which had previously worked twice and were returned when the Falcon-9 rocket was launched. The modular design of the missile Mask allows you to use the same steps in two types of missiles. These two stages come back again and will be prepared for re-use. This is a unique technical achievement.
4. Not all of the Mask still came out with the first successful launch. The Central stage of acceleration failed to drive safely to the sea platform, and was lost in the ocean. But this is the first landing test of the Central stage in the history of space.
5. In 2017, the private company Maska produced 18 missile launches-it is more than all countries of the world, except Russia. All launches Mask-successful. Russia produced 19 runs – but successful the same – 18. However, Musk has become the world market leader in weight indicated on the orbit of the payload since it was launched more than heavy missiles than Russia.
6. In 2017, the year Musk became the market leader in launches of heavy rockets. Falcon-9 brought down prices even lower than Russian, and became more profitable than Russian "proton". Almost a year "Protons" did not start.
7. Since the first rocket launch by Musk to launch the Falcon Heavy it's only been 12 years. Musk is already designing an even more powerful missile. Musk has shown that in the shortest possible time in the modern world people are able to carry out innovations on a planetary scale, which advance civilization. An example of the Space X project is instructive for everyone.
8. The Falcon Heavy rocket, whose first launch was successfully launched into space the sports car Tesla Roadster, which plays the song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. At the time of going into space telemetry showed that the car at speeds of over 10,000 km/h goes to Mars and the speed is increasing. This is by far the fastest car in the world. On its on - Board monitor one phrase - Dont panic-do not panic.