Falcon Heavy is a large cargo-lifting rocket built by the US corporation SpaceX with funding from South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk. Falcon Heavy is part of the privately developed family of three Falcon launch vehicles - Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
SpaceX engineers were able to determine the root cause of the issue mere hours after the botched flight
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has previously expressed interest in joining a SpaceX mission, told reporters that he will not be on the Inspiration-4 missiom
Building bigger rockets with bigger payloads means more fuel is used for each launch. The current fuel for Falcon Heavy is RP-1 and liquid oxygen, which creates a lot of carbon dioxide when burnt
The demonstration flight put the Falcon Heavy into the annals of spaceflight as the world's most powerful rocket in operation, with more lift capacity than any space vehicle to fly since NASA's Saturn
The Falcon Heavy, a reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle, is seen as the world's most powerful rocket since NASA's Saturn V moon rocket in the 1960s