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Weighs more than 3 million pounds, same as 10 amtrak lo locomotives. it is an amazing cluster of three engine cores. each containing nine engines. those 27 engines give an amazing thrust, 5 million pounds at take-off. the same as 18 747s in full throttle. it is expensive, goes for $90 million. the company has bigger ambitions than launching satellites. elon musk wants to establish a lunar base and settlement on mars within the next few decades. these are two of my favorite guys joining me. former nasa astronaut scott kelly. he commanded the international space station and spent a year in space...

This is a live look at cape canaveral in florida. spacex is about to launch a new rocket and it's a very big deal. this is a falcon heavy rocket. it is right now the most powerful rocket on the planet times two. this is set to be the biggest and brightest and most impressive rocket launch since the space shuttles retired and spacex reports it to be the future of human space travel. this rocket has 28 merlin engines, five million pounds of thrust. the equivalent of strapping 18 747s together and igniting them. the fuel on board, equivalent to four middle pounds of tnt. one pay load on board. a ...

That. 27 engines on these three rockets. and they would put out the equivalent of 18, the thrust of 18 747s. it is just a massive amount of firepower coming from underneath these rockets. there's going to be tremendous vibrations on these rockets. so their concern, quite literally, the vibrations would be so extreme they would rip the rockets apart. will this thing get off the ground? we hope so. it's unmanned. if it goes well, they would like to use these rockets to eventually put satellites into space much more cheaply than they are today. and maybe use the technology and build upon it to go...

Launch its new falcon heavy spacecraft. and there's nothing about the falcon heavy that's ordinary. from its rocket boosters to its payload and its destination. our rachel crane has this story for us. >> reporter: spacex is about to make the ground seriously rumble. their new rocket the falcon heavy is about to launch for the first time and this thing is big. it's lifting off from the historic kennedy center launch pad 39-a which is where apollo 11 launched humans to the moon, and once again the pad will be the site of space flight history. once falcon heavy has liftoff spacex says it will be ...

Correctly on sunday night. opening up the possibility that maybe this satellite itself was flawed. 16 months ago facebook's $200 million satellite went up in flames atop a space x falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad. space x is cleared for national security missions, recently launching the air force's x-37 b and space x's has everything else is still ago, including the demo flight of its falcon heavy. the equivalent of 18 747s. the launch is scheduled for later this month. space x intends to take people to moon, the mars, and beyond. >> bret: phil keating, thanks. all-star panel joins me to write...