Source – The incredible high-definiton livestream above is coming from the loneliest Tesla Roadster in the universe. It’s being beamed from a camera mounted on the spacecraft Elon Musk‘s SpaceX originally meant to send to Mars with its Falcon Heavy, the biggest rocket ever made. 

The launch went off without a hitch. Musk couldn’t hide his enthusiasm at sending the car—and its mannequin pilot, “Starman”—on such an incredible journey,especially after the Falcon Heavy returned to Earth and stuck the landing.

Starman and the Roadster had been slated to circle the Mars forever, but they’ll actually travel beyond the red planet. 

They say outer space will basically eat the Earth’s first electric vehicle-driving mannequin astronaut long before the asteroid belt bashes the whole thing to pieces, writing that “the energy of stellar radiation” will break the carbon bonds holding the midnight cherry red Roadster together.

The most important thing for Musk, however, is how the mission launch established his Falcon Heavy.

Ashe told The Verge, he’s demonstrated that “you can launch a giant rocket and have it be commercially viable.” It can “potentially carry people.” And that’s obviously his ultimate goal.

Meanwhile we’ve got some incredible images coming from the Roadster’s moving platform in space. They’re going to get someone else’s imagination going, and space travel will be awesome again.