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Yesterday, Elon Musk and SpaceX successfully launched the world’s most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy. To put this in perspective the rocket’s first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft. After the launched the internet was flooded with tweets and memes about the Falcon Heavy.
