Rocket mania surrounds first test flight for SpaceX’s huge new Falcon Heavy
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s hot new monster rocket makes its launch debut this week, blasting off from the same pad that hoisted men to the moon a half-century ago.
The Falcon Heavy won’t surpass NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit. It won’t even approach the liftoff might of NASA’s space shuttles.
But when it departs on its first test flight — as early as Tuesday
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