CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A new SpaceX jumbo rocket in line to become the world’s most powerful launch vehicle in operation blasted off from Florida on Tuesday in its debut test launch.
The 23-story tall Falcon Heavy roared off its launch pad at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, from the same site used by NASA’s towering Saturn 5 rockets to carry Apollo missions to the moon more than 40 years ago.
Reporting by Joey Roulette; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Will Dunham