Usually we see cars on our roads, but Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, had a very different idea. We\u2019ve sent a lot of unusual things to space, but nothing compares to what Elon Musk achieved. In February 2018, SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon Heavy rocket into space, the most powerful in the world, with Musk\u2019s personal 2008 Tesla Roadster onboard. This playful payload, the electric sports car built by his other company, Tesla, is expected to orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years. Wow! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even more surprising, strapped inside the car is a mannequin wearing one of SpaceX\u2019s spacesuits. What\u2019s even better, David Bowie\u2019s Space Oddity <\/em>is constantly playing. I mean, what a lucky mannequin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps Elon had some other thoughts too. Surely, to search for distant garages in the galaxy to sign up to My Auto Shop was top of mind. We wouldn’t want the potential extraterrestrials forgotten about. No? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Realistically though, since the launch a year ago, it\u2019s probably safe to say the Roadster has travelled farther than any other car…ever. In fact, it\u2019s estimated to be about equal to driving every single road in the world 50.7 times. Another wow! Despite the amazing mileage though, I\u2019m sure a quick service and a WoF wouldn\u2019t hurt from E.T\u2019s garage on Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But where is the vehicle now? As of writing, the current location is 246,818,121 km from Earth, and is moving at 16.62 km\/second! It exceeded its 57,000 km warranty, 31,000 times over on its journey so far. If you\u2019re interested in seeing a visual – have a look at Where is Roadster?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s safe to say that if this car ever returns back to Earth, it\u2019ll be in dire need of a service and a check up from one of our partner garages. I wonder which one Elon will choose around New Zealand. My guess is just as good as yours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually we see cars on our roads, but Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, had a very different idea. We\u2019ve sent a lot of unusual things to space, but nothing compares to what Elon Musk achieved. In February 2018, SpaceX successfully launched its first Falcon Heavy rocket into space, the most powerful in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-wrapped-thumbnail.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myautoshop.co.nz\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}