It’s been two years and eight months since the historic event and while the interest in Roadster and Starman’s travels has waned a bit, it’s still impressive. Just woke up this morning and while drinking coffee, quietly asking himself, “Gee, I wonder what Starman is today?” As one does, the answer is found only through SpaceX: Starman sits in the sight of the Red Planet. Or did, in short.
“Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach to Mars today – within 0.05 astronomical units, or 5 million miles below the Red Planet.” SpaceX said in a recent tweet.
Sure, it’s not that Starman was touching the distance to Mars, but it’s still closer to it than Earth, according to the White Redsster website, which tracks the progress of Roadster and its pilots. The same source notes that, if the battery on the roadster is still working, Starman will listen. Space Audit 265,533 times a year, and Is there life on Mars? 357,794 times in others.
Starman is a virtue dressed in a prototype of the SpaceX Space Suite, and another small version of it inside the Hot Wheels Toy Roadster on the dashboard. Data storage device with a copy of Isaac Asimov Foundation The novels are included, only in the case of the Duo Encounter Aliens on their space travel.
The roadster was launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket in the morning, with no specific target in mind. It has traveled at a speed of 64111 miles per hour (46969 kph), and by consensus, it will collide with an object and continue to move in space until it is destroyed. Unless it has already happened.
Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach to Mars today – within 0.05 astronomical units, or 5 million miles below the Red Planet. pic.twitter.com/gV8barFTm7
– SpaceX (SpaceX) October October 7, 2020
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