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By the way, I now understand this one too. It has to with an episode of Star Trek Voyager, where they find a '36 Ford pickup floating in space. It was a pretty good episode dealing with aliens abducting people from the late 1930's. Including Amelia Airhart. So Musk's Tesla is the first car put in space by humans. Aliens put the '36 Ford in space. I don't think that then counts.

Oh! I forgot about that. I do hope they sent one up with Starman then.

In the general subject section, there has been a dedicated thread on this subject for a few weeks now.

You know it!

NASA predicts that the roadster will be going orbit around the sun as shown in the diagram below. It sound make one complete orbit every 19 months. Because of its size, they predict that the next time it will be able to be seen with earth bound telescopes will be sometime around 2173.

Why does he need a towel? I don't understand?

Beautiful. Love those '71 - '74 mid-size Mopars.

Beautiful and simple. I like it.

Beautiful Dodge.

Beautiful. I love the color.

Nice.

Stunning! ?

Notice the license plate. It's not just any peanut car. It's MR PNUT1. The main peanut car! Does that mean there are others? If you have an accident in the car, is that called a crack up? Also I'd be careful not to park it near a group of elephants. That could be trouble!

???? Red '36 Ford pickup truck. Who sent a '36 Ford pickup into space? I'm assuming this is a pop culture reference I know nothing about. Or maybe I knew, but have forgotten about?

Wow! Impressive.

Very kool. A classic early 60's style kustom.

It looks nice. I like it.

I like the display on Starman's GPS screen in the middle of the dash. It states, "DO'NT PANIC!." The Space X folks have a great sense of humor in my opinion. As I noted, I turned 60 yesterday. And I had been feeling a little Blue about that. Two things I loved as kid were cars and space program. I knew the first time I saw 2001: A Space Oddessy back in 1968, I would be piloting that cool Moon Bus someday. Things changed quickly, most for the better. But not for cars or the space program at that time in my eyes. Cars became boring, efficient Toyota Corolla toaster clones. Doing their jobs well and safely. With kids the strapped down, and immobile in special pods in the back seats. The space shuttle? Basically a truck for bring cargo up into low earth orbit. No really adventure there. Musk is bringing the excitement back. We're running out of oil? How about an electric cars. But, for their first one, he gave us a fairly quick roadster. Not some bland and boring, resource saving, soulless, compact sedan. And when he did gave us a sedan, it was as sexy as anything Jaguar ever put out. They may not be perfect. But, they were, and are, heading in the right direction. And at the rate NASA and their government bureaucracy is going, do you think we'll see them put humans on Mars, and spread farther out into the universe before I'm dead? No 2001 Moon Buses coming from them. But, with Musk and Space X it's looking more hopeful. It's time for humans to leave this planet, and start exploring the unknown, in a hands on way again. We are smart creatures. God has given us the brains, and the resources to figure these things out. And we now know that there are places out there for us to explore. Maybe colonize. And find resources to continue bettering our lives. Thank you Elon Musk for the wonderful birthday gift you gave me yesterday. And thank you for having fun while doing so. The more I see of both Tesla and Space Xs projects, the more excited I become. Rather looking at what limits us. Your stretching out, reaching for a brighter future. It may not effect my life directly. I doubt that I will personally ever drive a Moon Bus. Or the even see the surface of the Moon personally. And that's okay. Elon Musk is at least giving me hope. We need more people out there like Mr. Musk.

By the way, the car was exposed to space once it got there. I think it's pretty cool that a private company can put a car and dummy in space. And land major peices of it's rocket back near were they started from. This to me miraculous. The future is getting closer. I turned 60 years old yesterday, when this was all happening. Maybe I'll get to see humans on Mars before I die. Thank you Elon Musk.

Inside. I'm amazed the boosters back come to the cape for a landing, and upright. Just like the sci-fi rockets in the 1950's!

Wow! Very nice looking truck. And trailer. Hope see the Cobra soon.

Cool. Very nicely done.

You know, that's not a bad idea. They would look more correct used in that application. I like that idea. Thanks.

When? Any photos of anything with the kit and the Lindberg logo together? Box art, or something like that? I don't remember ever seeing anything like that from Lindberg.

That's sound like good news. I hope it happens. Thanks Tim.