r/spaceporn • u/feeling_impossible • Feb 07 '18

Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car. [1920x1080]

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u/rebootyourbrainstem Feb 07 '18

At the press conference after the launch Elon Musk said they didn't really do anything to make it spaceworthy. It's just a car, in space. Welded to a rocket and some camera mounts.

Seems to be holding up okay, but nobody really knows...

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u/Lg88slc Feb 07 '18

So this is a fun little experiment, really? That’s pretty damn neat.

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u/assignment2 Feb 07 '18

This was a test flight, on test flights they use weight to simulate cargo, typically concrete blocks. On this one they used a car.

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u/Qwiggalo Feb 07 '18

No he means putting a car into space and exposing it to space might produce an unknown event because it's never been done, they only ever put things in space with specific materials in mind.