Elon Musk's 'Starman' completes a lap around the Sun in Tesla Roadster, space fans blare klaxons

Elon Musk's Starman - dummy aboard Tesla Roster which was launched as a dummy paylo on X's reusable Falcon Heavy rocket into on February 2018, has completed a full revolution around Sun on Monday. floating Roster took exactly  1 year, 6 months, 12 days to complete this feat, according to a science news website.

Here's Tesla proudly anuncing it:

Roster's journey

Dedicated to tracking Tesla Roster around our solar system -  'Where is  Roster?'  states that car which has a 36,000 miles warranty while it has been 'driving around Sun' covering 1,229,228,986 km, moving at a speed of 33.59 km/s. As of Monday, car has exceeded its warranty  21,217 times!

Interestingly website also states that Starman has listened to song ' Oddity' 151,756 times since he launched in one ear, and to song 'Is re Life On Mars?' 204,485 times in his or ear, if car battery of Roster is still functioning.

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Starman's launch

On February 7, 2018, on Falcon Heavy's maiden flight, playing a practical joke eccentric genius X CEO Elon Musk chose to attach his own Tesla Roster built in 2009, as a dummy paylo. On paylo apter is a plaque with names of 6000 X employees.

Taking his prank furr, a X suit called "Starman" was placed into driver's seat. A  HotWheels toy-model of Roster with a miniature Starman inside too is in car and a stor device containing Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" vels.

ditionally, car also carries a copy of Douglas am's " Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy" in glovebox, along with a towel and a sign saying "Don't Panic". Apart from this odd accompaniments, Starman is listening to ' Oddity' and ''Is re Life On Mars?' through car's sound system.

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fans salute Starman: