Demo (Test Flight)
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX
Crew

Starman
Status: Active
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Nationality: Earthling
Type: Non-Human
First Flight: 2/6/2018
Last Flight: 2/6/2018
"Starman" is a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupying the driver's seat of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched to an heliocentric orbit on Falcon Heavy's inaugural launch.
Mission
Demo Flight 1 (Maiden Flight)
Type: Test Flight
This will be the inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy. The test payload will be SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination: An elliptical, heliocentric orbit. Apoapsis: Around Mars’ orbital distance.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
223 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Landing
The strap on booster landed successfully at Landing Zone 1 in unison with its sibling booster.
Landing Zone 1 – LZ-1
LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Agency
SpaceX – SpX
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: SpX
- Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
- Founded: 2002
- Launchers: Falcon | Starship
- Spacecraft: Dragon
- Country: USA
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.