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Georgia Tech students are excited about Tuesday's SpaceX launch

The students from Georgia Tech will have a project going up on the third Falcon Heavy mission
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech students designed a satellite that is planned to go up on the third Falcon Heavy flight and send data back to Earth -- so now they will be looking at their own work in space in the next six months.

The students who worked on the project were watching Tuesday's launch on a huge projector screen, taking notes and figuring out what their launch is going to look like -- and talking about how the industry has changed.

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It's a whole new game, now that space has become a private industry -- and that comes with a few quirks.

Elon Musk launched a Tesla Roadster into space on Tuesday -- and his rocket will be playing David Bowie's Space Oddity non-stop, which they think just adds to his charm.

They still have work to do before their launch later this year.

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