Time flies when you're floating aimlessly through the cold, inhospitable wasteland that is space. And it's already been seven years since SpaceX test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, shooting founder Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space.

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its first close approach to Mars on Oct. 7, 2020.

They were not there to take aim at the company's electric vehicles, but the person behind Tesla - Elon Musk - and join with others who are upset at the world's richest man work to disrupt and take apart large portions of the US government.