Elon Musk's SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, in 2018.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful operational rocket, launched its maiden commercial mission from Florida on Thursday, in a critical showcase for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space business in the fight for lucrative military launch contracts. The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously propelled Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to orbit in a 2018 maiden test flight, lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with its first customer cargo. SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy for the first time on February 6, 2018, at 20:45 UTC.
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