Live Feed of SpaceX's Starman on his way to Mars:

[joshcryer]

ROFL

[samnsara]

1. is the car IN a rocket or is the car the rocket?

[Lucinda]

2. In. They used the car rather than just dead weight to test the payload

[NightWatcher]

3. The car is inside the payload bay of the cone of the rocket

Thats the pic of it mounted on the payload carrier before they put it inside

[NightWatcher]

4. This is it going inside

[OneGrassRoot]

10. This is driving me crazy...lol

I've been trying to find diagrams and such to explain this to me.

So, I see the car is inside the rocket, but how is the unobstructed view that we see in the live feed taking place? I'm being super dense.

Thanks in advance.

[joshcryer]

11. The cone broke away after it reached space.

The cone fell back to Earth (they have been trying to recover them). The car's sitting on top of the booster exposed to space with cameras pointing at it.

[OneGrassRoot]

12. WOW!!!!

THAT. IS. SO. COOL.!!!! Thank you, thank you.

[joshcryer]

6. It's at the end of the booster rocket.

Technically it may not yet succeed on the trip to Mars because the booster has to fire one more time.

[Snackshack]

5. Wow...

The opening scene from Heavy Metal come to life. Unbelievable. Can’t help but hear the song Radar Rider in my head.

[Codeine]

7. I thought the Dont Panic thing

was a joke people were making — it actually fucking says it on the dash!

Sometimes life is pretty cool.

[malthaussen]

8. Elon Musk has a sense of humor...

... and is a big sci-fi fan. His mission appears to be making sci-fi sci-fact.

I'm cool with that.

-- Mal

[Hortensis]

9. Yes. Love it.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. K&R! Very cool!

Relieved to hear that all is going well! Thanks so much for posting!