Now in an elliptical orbit around the sun, the Tesla Roadster ... the Tesla and its space-suited driver "Starman" outbound with an increasingly distant crescent Earth in the background.

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

As for the red Tesla Roadster convertible – owned ... of video showing the Tesla floating through space with a globular Earth in the background was an apparent victory over Flat Earthers.

Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit ... "Worst case, you spend a billion launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it’s not an asteroid ...

In 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX made headlines when they launched a Tesla Roadster into space as the payload for the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018, from Kennedy Space ...

The photo, which Musk shared Wednesday on Instagram, shows Starman in the Roadster with the entire Earth in background ... Related: Track Tesla in Space Starman and Musk's Roadster are in ...

And it's already been seven years since SpaceX test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, shooting founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space. The cherry-red sports car is still ...

Related: Track Tesla in Space If a spacecraft ... from time to time in the background or handle it through the regular app software updates. Because the Roadster is a brand-new object, it may ...

It’s now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster into outer space, sending the car on an endless journey ...

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