Elon Musk shows off the dummy that’s going to Mars in a Tesla

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We’ve already established that Elon Musk takes all his jokes seriously, so when he said he’ll send a Tesla Roadster to space, we believed him. 

But Musk isn’t sending the car up there without a driver — because that would be pointless, wouldn’t it? No, behind the wheel will be Starman, a dummy dressed in SpaceX’s snazzy spacesuit, ready to boldly go where no crash-test dummy dared go before. 

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