Thread:Comments:SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts Elon Musk's personal Tesla into solar orbit/Whose idea?/reply (2)

I think it was pretty genius marketing. On a first test like this, nobody is going to put a multi-million dollar satellite in it; and definitely not a manned flight. Before the launch, Elon himself gave the launch a 50/50 shot at success. They needed something with mass, so why not take advantage of the opportunity?