Why do people think it's going to Mars? It may have overshot slightly, but it was never going to Mars anyway, and Musk never said it was.

@Coffeo I don't really know where that idea originated but, it's most likely a misrepresentation by some media outlet.

so do i..

@Basem Having read a bit more information on it's original destination, I do think I know where that perception came from. It was originally intended to go into a "Mars" orbit. Not an orbit around Mars but, an orbit around the sun at approximately the same distance as Mars. Apparently though, it's final burn will have it overshooting that orbit and will most likely land it somewhere in the asteroid belt instead where it will continue to orbit indefinitely (providing it doesn't hit anything else while it's out there).

Mars is mentioned as this is part of the dream, Elon wishes to be buried on Mars and we are working on a lunar station requiring efficient , reusable rockets, Now the landing of the two fuel containers was just amazing. The accuracy and smoothness was all there

@EMC2 I watched it live. It was nothing short of spectacular. I heard that something went wrong with the center rocket that was supposed to land on the drone ship and it splashed into the ocean at about 300 miles per hour. I hope they can recover it and find out what went wrong there.