Essay On Elon Musk's First Car Into Space

It’s official; Elon Musk and SpaceX have sent a car into space. In Cape Canaveral, Florida the world’s first car in space took off on its journey beyond Mars. Musk’s car, a Tesla Roadster was the fastest car ever in space. The car flew in the Falcon Heavy Rocket, “the most powerful rocket flying these days” says Newsela. If all goes to plan, the Roadster can go all the way to the asteroid belt in between Jupiter and Mars. Elon Musk stated that the car traveled farther than expected and the car might just go father than the dwarf planet, Ceres which is in the asteroid belt, although the car was only supposed to go as far as the planet Mars. Inside the car sits a life-size mannequin who was named “Starman” after the song by David Bowie. Astronaut, Ricky Arnold was awestruck by the Starman. Arnold tweeted, “Awesome! At this speed, two hands on the steering wheel please! #Starman”. Musk stated that the Heavy will mostly be used to launch supersize satellites and will not be used to fly …show more content…
Although, I don’t think a city on Mars will happen anytime soon. Musk shares with the HuffPost that he is planning on starting a city on Mars in five years. This doesn’t seem safe nor economical. Will people start living on Mars? What will become of planet Earth once the city in space is created? Another reason why I don’t think this is a good idea is that no average person is going to spend millions of dollars to live in space. Also, IF one day there is a city on Mars, nobody is going to drop everything they have worked for their entire life-graduating college, getting a job, getting married, just to live on Mars. Elon Musk and his team are going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on building a city on Mars and probably only (at most) a hundred people will pay to live there since it will cost millions of dollars. This is why I don’t think sending a car into space will lead to a city on