WORLD'S BIGGEST ROCKET SOARS TOWARDS MARS.

CAPE CANAVERAL : *World's biggest rocket soars towards Mars after perfect launch*.

The world's most powerful rocket rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, blasted off on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying-

CEO Elon Musk's cherry red and Tesla Roadster towards an orbit near Mars.

Screams and cheers erupted at mission control in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the massive rocket its 27 engines and rumbled into the blue sky over the same NASA launch ad that served as a base for the US missions to the Moon four decades ago.

''The mission went as well as one could have hoped,'' an ecstatic Musk told reporters after the launch, calling it ''probably the most exciting thing I have seen literally ever.''

'' I had the image of a giant explosion on the pad with a wheel bouncing down the road with the Tesla logo landing somewhere,'' he said.

''Fortunately that is not what happened''.

Loaded with Musk's red Tesla and a mannequin in a spacesuit, the monster rocket's test voyage captured the world's imagination.

SpaceX's webcast showed the Tesla Roadster soaring into space, as David Bowie's ''Space Oddity'' played in the background -with the words:

''DON'T PANIC'' visible on the dashboard, in an apparent nod to the sci-fi series the:

''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.''