Launch rocket with Tesla delayed by wind

cape canaveral - We have not yet succeeded in launching a new SpaceX rocket with a red Tesla Roadster. The game breaker is the strong wind high in the sky above Cape Canaveral's space base in Florida.

The launch, which was initially scheduled for 7.30 pm Dutch time, has been postponed. The flight control now assumes a launch at 9.45 pm, but if it fails before 10.00 pm, the launch must be moved to another day.

The rocket is the Falcon Heavy from space company SpaceX. It is the strongest launcher in half a century. The Tesla Roadster must be brought to Mars as a publicity stunt. Along the way David Bowie's song Space Oddity must sound out of the speakers.

The new rocket must help to bring people back into space, in the future possibly even to Mars.