https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7ngk/spacex-falcon-heavy-test-launch

Early Tuesday afternoon SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V first took astronauts to the moon almost 50 years ago and the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. I watched the launch from NASA’s press site, about 3.5 miles from the launch pad. NASA was expecting to host around 400 reporters from all around the world to view this historic flight and the grass lawn began to fill with press hours before the launch.

Many of the reporters on site had been following the development of the Falcon Heavy for nearly a decade. First announced in 2011, the Falcon Heavy has been beleaguered by setbacks from the outset. Its maiden flight was originally promised in 2013, but it didn’t make it to Kennedy Space Center until late last year.