The full credit is available for the remainder of the calendar quarter in which that threshold is reached, as well as the subsequent quarter.

But Tesla hasn't crash-landed yet. Several days earlier pilot Buzz Aldrin, mission commander Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins had blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center's launch complex 39A aboard Apollo 11.

Putting a Tesla Roadster into orbit atop it was a stroke of marketing genius; imagine the slogan "A bazillion miles without a charge!" You can see why everyone took them as a gut punch. The Falcon Heavy launch "was an amazing spectacle". The telescope automatically identified the sports car as a near-Earth object.

"Even this Tesla realist and Model 3 deposit holder has doubts about Tesla ramping up to 10,000 units/week, essentially promising production levels of over 250,000 units in 2018", said Rebecca Lindland, executive analyst at Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com.

Model 3 had a negative gross margin last quarter due to production constraints.

Elon Musk's vision calls for building networks of underground tunnels to get around surface street congestion. The dream behind the engineering and the enterprise may not look as serious as the state considerations of Rogozin and Komarov - but it sure helps propel some heavy objects into space. What use is the Statue of Liberty?

By the late century, he said, he imagines humans will have already colonized other planets in the solar system - and Musk's "descendants will be able to drag [the roadster] back to a museum". "After that, things are too high in the sky". Year-to-date, TSLA has gained 1.25%, versus a -3.46% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.

"After orbiting the Earth for 6 hours, a third-stage burn-to-depletion was completed at approximately 02:30 UTC Feb 7, placing the dummy payload in a heliocentric orbit having a perihelion of 0.99 au and aphelion ~1.7 au".

Musk understands the thrill many of us got watching those first Space Shuttle landings, flanked by chase planes, broadcast on TV - Columbia's maiden touchdown on April 14, 1981, drew 225,000 cheering spectators to Edwards Air Force Base in California, overwhelming the base's police and facilities. That's an increase of 35 percent over 2016.

In a time of serial killers, mysterious homicides and road rage, there are still some positive stories.

Tesla was founded in 2003.

Then, boom: profits in 2013. Upon thruster 1 and 2 returning virtually at the same time, Musk exclaimed "That was epic". Every single pound of probe, cargo or astronaut put into low-Earth orbit (LEO) costs thousands of dollars.

As a result, Tesla is aiming to deliver about 100,000 Model S and Model X vehicles in 2018 - about in line with the approximately 101,000 combined deliveries of the two vehicles it saw in 2017.

I just think only suckers are buying it right now. The big question was whether Tesla would shift its production target for the Model 3 back (again).

-A company working on self-driving trucks, EMbark, claims that a self-driving semi just made its first cross-country trip.

Tesla on Wednesday reported a $675 million loss in the most recent quarter, more than five times the loss it reported a year ago.