Fastest car in space
Who
Tesla Roadster
Where
Not Applicable ()
When

On 6 February 2018, SpaceX launched inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket. Aboard was the personal Tesla Roadster car of SpaceX founder Elon Musk. The car was successfully launched and boosted into a heliocentric orbit around the Sun that will take the car beyond the orbit of Mars and back. At the point of booster engine cut-off, the car was launched into its heliocentric orbit at a calculated velocity of 33.5 km/s (74,937 mph) relative to the Sun, which was 11.15 km/s (24,942 mph) relative to the Earth, which makes this the fastest speed a car has ever travelled in space — including the Lunar Rovers as they sped from Earth to Moon. At the wheel is a mannequin dressed in a full space suit, complete with a copy of Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and a towel.