On 6 February 2018, a Tesla Roadster was launched as the mass simulator on the first ever Falcon Heavy launch — putting for the first time ever a car on a Mars-crossing orbit. While undoubted… ...

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Lining up in a stellar renewal of Deauville's G1 Sumbe Prix Morny as the sole filly, Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy's Venetian Sun (Starman) did what she has been doing so well in 2025 and got the job ...

"Starman," with Gentry Lee reigniting the fervor of those times, returns us to the reality-based daydream of life on other planets, and the question of how authentic that dream ever was.

"Starman" sits in a Tesla Roadster after it was carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018. SpaceX via AFP-Getty Images ...

blaring in Starman's headset, would have played 133,695 times by now if the batteries still worked, which they don't. And most people don't realize he's coming back.

You can watch SpaceX's Starman mannequin ride a Tesla Roadster in space live on YouTube after the successful Falcon Heavy test launch of Feb. 6, 2018. Check it out!

But Starman isn’t only a stunt. The craft will orbit the sun for tens of billions of years at about 13.5 miles per hour. So it will cross the orbits of Mars and Earth many times, and came within ...

Starman, which launched aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in February sitting in the driver's seat of a Tesla Roadster, has journeyed beyond the Red Planet, according to a ...

Starman is a mannequin sporting a SpaceX flight suit, casually seated behind the wheel of a red Tesla Roadster. On Wednesday, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared the last image of Starman, as he ...