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    SpaceX's Falcon Heavy takes to the skies

    Source: CNN::
    February 6, 2018 at 16:20
    SpaceX's Falcon Heavy took flight Tuesday, and everything appears to be going seamlessly.

    Around 3:45 pm ET, the world's most powerful rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    About two and a half minutes after launch, the two side boosters on the rocket detached and headed back to Earth.

    Thousands of onlookers could be heard cheering through SpaceX's livestream.

    The rocket is built by SpaceX, the game-changing company helmed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

    In the run up to launch, it wasn't at all clear whether the rocket would work.

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