{"id":18649,"date":"2018-02-07T00:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-starman-drift-spacexs-tesla-reaches-the-ultimate-cruising-altitude-and-rides-off-into-space\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T00:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:49:57","slug":"watch-starman-drift-spacexs-tesla-reaches-the-ultimate-cruising-altitude-and-rides-off-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-starman-drift-spacexs-tesla-reaches-the-ultimate-cruising-altitude-and-rides-off-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u2018Starman\u2019 drift: SpaceX\u2019s Tesla reaches the ultimate cruising altitude and rides off into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_395631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395631\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-395631 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman1-630x351.png\" alt=\"Starman \" width=\"630\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman1-630x351.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman1-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman1.png 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-395631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Starman, drifting in a Tesla Roadster, has an incredible view of Earth on Tuesday. (SpaceX Image via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This might be the ultimate space oddity.<\/p>\n<p>High above his home planet, where millions of people are no doubt sitting in traffic in cars of their own, \u201cStarman\u201d drifted effortlessly through a wide open expanse on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;mannequin in a spacesuit \u2014&nbsp;launched aboard SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday \u2014 sat in the driver\u2019s seat of Elon Musk\u2019s cherry red Tesla Roadster. With the top down, Starman drove off toward a deep-space orbit listening to David Bowie\u2019s \u201cLife on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395632\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-395632\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman2-630x354.png\" alt=\"Starman\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman2-630x354.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman2-1260x709.png 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-395632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(SpaceX Image via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395633\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-395633\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman3-630x324.png\" alt=\"Starman\" width=\"630\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman3-630x324.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman3-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/starman3.png 839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-395633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(SpaceX Image via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX beamed a live internet view of the unprecedented adventure via its YouTube feed, where more than 200,000 viewers were watching at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Assorted camera angles captured views from inside the Roadster over Starman\u2019s shoulder; from out in front of the hood looking back; and from off the driver\u2019s side of the car looking back toward Starman.<\/p>\n<p>Earth continuously moved into the frame to serve as a dramatic blue backdrop against an otherwise deep, black setting.<\/p>\n<p>A toy Roadster sat on the dashboard, with a tiny toy Starman sitting inside.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly amused by his own stunt, Musk tweeted that \u201capparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth,\u201d later adding that the Tesla was over Australia.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s live-video view of Starman was available for only a limited time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battery\u2019s going to last about 12 hours from launch, roughly, and after that it\u2019s just going to be out there in deep space for maybe millions or billions of years, who knows?\u201d Musk said. \u201cMaybe it\u2019ll be discovered by some future alien race, thinking, \u2018What were these guys doing? Did they worship this car? Why do they have a little car in the car?\u2019 That\u2019ll really confuse them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Starman is no longer live, you can catch a few hours\u2019 worth of the Roadster\u2019s space odyssey, courtesy of this archived YouTube clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Views of Starman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBr2kKAHN6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starman, drifting in a Tesla Roadster, has an incredible view of Earth on Tuesday. (SpaceX Image via YouTube) This might be the ultimate space oddity. High above his home planet, where millions of people are no doubt sitting in traffic in cars of their own, \u201cStarman\u201d drifted effortlessly through a wide open expanse on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1045,678,136,5230,3086],"class_list":["post-18649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-falcon-heavy","tag-rocket","tag-starman","tag-tesla"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}