In 2018, Elon Musk's Tesla sent Roadster and 'Starman' into Space, 8 years later he reveals reason was 'failure'; says: We didn't want to ...

More than eight years after SpaceX first launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018, Elon Musk has reflected on why he decided to send his personal midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster and a spacesuit-clad mannequin named “Starman” into deep space. Musk explained that as it was the inaugural demonstration mission of the heavy-lift booster, he anticipated that the rocket would likely malfunction and fail. He also said that rather than loading a standard, dull test mass like a slab of concrete, he decided to launch the car with a mannequin.