A spotlight on Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster: headed for a long road trip in space

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the new Tesla Roadster at an event last year in Hawthorne, California.(Photo: USA TODAY)

When a billionaire entrepreneur launches his favorite car into space, people are bound to be curious about the automobile.

“I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future,” Elon Musk, the founder and brains behind Tesla Inc., a manufacturer of all-electric cars, said recently on social media.

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Musk's cherry red 2008 Tesla Roadster is part of the payload of Tuesday's launch of the much-publicized Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. Musk is also founder of SpaceX which is launching the Falcon rocket.

Other automobile manufacturers also have toyed with the idea of a launching a car into space but they had one drawback. They didn't own a rocket manufacturing business like Musk does.

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Here are some details of the Tesla Roadster, the all-electric vehicle manufactured by Elon Musk's green car company, in what is sure to be the world's longest road trip.

Model: Tesla Roadster

Production models: 2008-2012

Code name during its design: DarkStar

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster - his is a 2008 cherry red model - is heading toward Mars. (Photo: USA TODAY)

Body style: 2-door sports car

Distance on a single battery charge: About 244 miles

Speed: 0 to 60 mph acceleration time is 3.9 seconds for the Standard model and 3.7 seconds for the 2010 V2.5 Sport.

Cost: The base price for a Tesla Roadster will set you back at least $110,000. That's about the cost of five new Honda Civics.

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