Humor or bold ambitions if all goes to plan the falcon heavy a successor to the smaller falcon nine seen here will live twice as much as the current largest rocket in the u.s. space fleet for a quarter of the cost much of those cost savings are found in reusable boosters which are designed to return to earth after launching its always a major mistake at stake is big business with nasa satellite companies and the u.s. military before the launch must acknowledge the then margin for error in a multi-stage launch and payload release but he was characteristically optimistic. business sources go rock i hope it goes right he s already designing a bigger rocket this one capable of carrying astronauts hopefully one day to mars. and back down to earth later on i ll be talking about an unwelcome visitor in africa causing havoc for farmers there now back to layla and to some challenges for