Interactive documentaryFalcon Heavy — Demo Flight
Twenty-seven engines, two boosters home in perfect sync, and a car bound for deep space.
≈ 4 min3 acts2 interactive moments🧒🎒🚀 three ways to travel
A cinematic, narrated expedition in 3 acts — it flies the 3D universe, embeds real mission replays and Academy lessons, and lets you walk the surface. Pick the storytelling that fits you: Explorer (ages 6–10), Student (11–15), or the full Voyager register. Every act is a place you can also explore in full.
The expedition
Act 1
Countdown
The most powerful rocket flying waits on the pad that sent Apollo to the Moon.
- Falcon HeavyFebruary 6, 2018. Launch Complex 39A — the pad that sent Apollo 11 to the Moon. Three rocket cores, twenty-seven engines, and a payload no one saw coming.
- The Pad That Sent Us to the MoonNo rocket had flown from here since the Space Shuttle. Now three Falcon 9 cores stand strapped together — the first attempt to fly the most powerful operational rocket in the world, on a flight test nobody was sure would survive the pad.
Act 2
The Ascent
T-minus to orbit — your hands on the call, and the loss.
- IgnitionTake the flight director's chair. The countdown is yours.
- The Ascent→
Act 3
Aftermath
Two boosters standing on their pads — and a Roadster falling around the Sun.
- A Car Among the PlanetsStarman is still out there. The Roadster loops around the Sun on a Mars-crossing orbit — the first car in interplanetary space, and you can still look up exactly where it is today.
- How Far Did It Go?The launch-night graphic showed the Roadster flung out to the asteroid belt. But where did it really end up?