5 years in the past at present (Feb. 6), SpaceX’s brawny Falcon Heavy rocket left Earth for the primary time ever.
That debut mission, which lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida, was no atypical take a look at flight. For starters, it topped the Falcon Heavy as essentially the most highly effective rocket on the planet, a title it held until NASA’s Space Launch System flew this past November on the Artemis 1 mission.