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SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy For First Time

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, February 6th, 2018

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SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy For First Time

Falcon Heavy (SpaceX photo)

SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy launch vehicle lifted off for the first time Feb. 6 during a flight test from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The three-booster, 230-foot-tall rocket smoothly cleared the launch pad and soared into space at about 3:45 p.m. Eastern time. Minutes later, the two side boosters returned safely to Earth, landing simultaneously at SpaceX landing zones at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The fate of the center booster, which was supposed to land on the “Of Course…

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