to one, generating more than 5 million-pounds of thrust, enough to launch a 737 space x founder and ceoe lon musk called it a success admitting he didn't think that this would work, the only hitch the center core was unable to slow down enough to land on the platform, anchored in the ocean. >> apparently it hit the water at 300 miles an hour and took out two of the engine on the ship. >> reporter: the two outside boosters that helped get falcon we have any to space musk got them back intact. they landed at cape can nav val airport station. >> that is most exciting thing i have ever seen, ever. >> reporter: pay load on this test launch is musk's midnight cherry tesla roadster with a dummy named star man, it is headed for a orbit around the sun that extends as far out as mars and could remain in orbit for hundreds of millions of years. manual, cbs news, kennedy space center. >> is there much more still ahead on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> including stocking up on merchandise for the big parade >> go eagles. >> go eagles, everybody is getting their trail of the eagles apparel.