Trending · Flying Roadster Part 9: The Roadster's wild 9-year story
2008 first Roadster, 2017 promise, 2018 SpaceX package and Starman in space, 2026 thruster demo, 2028 production.
A Tesla Roadster is in SPACE! 🚀🌍 The Roadster's wild story:
📅 2008 — the first Roadster: Tesla's first car.
📅 2017 — a new Roadster is shown, promised for 2020 (0–60 mph in 1.9 s, 620 miles — Tesla's claims). Then: delayed.
📅 2018 — Elon Musk's own old Roadster flies to space on the first Falcon Heavy, with a dummy called Starman at the wheel. It's still circling the Sun!
📅 2018 — the promise of a "SpaceX package" with ~10 small rocket thrusters.
📅 2026 — the thruster hops at the demo (15 October).
📅 2028 — production planned.
Nine years, one wild ride! That's the end of our 9-part Flying Roadster series — which part was your favourite? 👇
Read the voiceover (transcript)
- A Tesla Roadster is in space!
- Twenty oh eight: Tesla's first car. Twenty seventeen: a new Roadster, due in twenty twenty.
- Twenty eighteen: Musk's old Roadster flew to space on a rocket, with a dummy called Starman!
- Then came the rocket thrusters promise. Twenty twenty-six: the hops. Production: twenty twenty-eight.
- Nine years, one wild ride!
- Next myth: phones while charging! Follow for more!
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