- [Alex] SpaceX, yes, that company.
- SpaceX for two.
- [Alex] Jimmy.
- What looks like smoke
emanating from Falcon 9
before launch, is super-chilled LOX.
This liquid gas, used as propellant,
is vented as pressure
builds and it's so cold
that it actually condenses the atmosphere
around the rocket.
- [Alex] Evelyn.
- What is oxygen?
- [Alex] Liquid oxygen, right.
- SpaceX 400.
- In 2015, SpaceX
achieved an historic first
when it brought Falcon 9's
first age back from space
and landed it safely at
this Florida location.
- [Alex] Andrew.
- What is Cape Canaveral?
- [Alex] You are right.
- SpaceX for 600.
- [Alex] Back to Jimmy.
- SpaceX plans to send
two private passengers
on a flight around the
moon, the first man venture
into lunar orbit since this
final 1972 Apollo mission.
- [Alex] Andrew.
- What is Apollo 17?
- [Alex] You got it.
- Spacex 800.
- [Alex] Let's go back to Jimmy.
- SpaceX's Falcon heavy
rocket has the thrust
of 18 747 jumbo jets and delivers nearly
141,000 pounds of payload into orbit.
Second only to this legendary NASA rocket
that boosted the Apollo
missions into space.
- [Alex] Barbara.
- What's the Saturn?
- [Alex] Be more specific.
- Ooh.
- [Alex] Oh, darn.
Andrew.
- What's the Saturn 5?
- [Alex] That's it.
- SpaceX 1,000.
- [Alex] Jimmy, wrap us up.
- Instead of a conventional test payload,
Falcon Heavy's first launch
carried a Tesla Roadster,
piloted by a mannequin named this,
the title of a David Bowie song
about an extraterrestrial
who's waiting in the sky.
- [Alex] Evelyn.
- What is Major Tom?
- [Alex] No.
Barbara.
- Who is Starman?
- [Alex] Starman, correct.
