Elon Musk Advances the Falcon Heavy !!!

A high-tech entrepreneur [Elon Musk] unveiled plans Tuesday [at the National Press Club] to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon, reports the Associated Press. Space Exploration Technology has already sent the first private rocket and capsule into Earth's orbit as a commercial venture. It is now planning a rocket that could lift twice as much cargo into orbit as the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle. The first launch is slotted for 2013 from Vandenberg in California with follow-up launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Space X's new [22-story] rocket called Falcon Heavy is big enough to send cargo or even people out of Earth's orbit to the moon, an asteroid or Mars. Only the long retired Saturn V rocket that sent men to the moon was bigger. The Los Angeles Times provides more details and a 38-minute video of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is posted below.