World's Most Powerful Rocket Ready In 2012, SpaceX Says

Velcroman1 writes "Elon Musk, the millionaire founder of private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX for short) said the long-planned Falcon Heavy vehicle would be ready for lift off at the end of 2012. The rocket, which he called the most powerful in the world, would be capable of taking men to the International Space Station, dropping vehicles and astronauts on the moon — and maybe even cruising to Mars and back."

"maybe" cruising to mars?

[tulcod]

How can one not know whether his/her rocket is capable of making it to Mars? Are we talking superpositions here or what?

Re:"maybe" cruising to mars?

[ByOhTek]

Maybe part of his team is using metric, and another part is using imperial?

Re:Leave it Fox..

[517714]

Title: "World's Most Powerful Rocket Ready in 2012, SpaceX Says"

Last Sentence: ""First launch from our Cape Canaveral launch complex is planned for late 2013 or 2014,” Musk said."

Apparently their reporters have a very short attention span.

Re:"maybe" cruising to mars?

[killkillkill]

To be fair, that error actually got NASA closer to Mars.

Re:Leave it Fox..

[DrJimbo]

Always better to have the rocket ready *before* the first launch rather than after.