On February 6, 2018, I was sitting in the American Airlines Admirals Club at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, getting a snack prior to boarding a flight. CNN was playing on the club's large TV screens.
When I looked up, I happened to see blastoff video of the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, capable of putting much larger payloads into orbit than the workhorse Falcon 9. That first launch was the one that sent into a solar orbit a Tesla convertible with a dummy astronaut sitting behind the wheel.
