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We're still geeking out about SpaceX's historic launch yesterday, lifting their Falcon Heavy off the Space Coast's famous 39-A launch pad and sending a Tesla Roadster rocketing toward the stars. Above, is the latest (and some say last) photo of the electric auto traveling a starry highway.

Here's the dashboard Starman is "seeing." I love Musk's nod to "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with the 'don't panic' sign.

There are so many great photos to check out and video to watch. I love this one of the twin boosters arriving on landing pads not too far from the launch site.

Today SpaceX founder Elon Musk let the world know that the Tesla Roadster was well on its way. "

Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt," he reported.

IN REVIEW: We're still playing catch up here at MPA. Last week, CJ, Annabelle and Christian attended a members preview screening of a movie at Pacific Science Center. I'll let CJ tell you a little more about that.

For 300 million years, there have been creatures around the Earth soaring through the skies, from insects to dinosaurs to birds to bats. The history of these creatures is explored in depth in the new documentary Conquest of the Skies 3D.

Conquest of the Skies, narrated by Mark Bonnar, is a documentary detailing the past and present of flying creatures on Earth. While the history of flying creatures is (relatively) short so far considering the length of Earth's existence (~4.54 billion years old, according to Space.com), fossils underneath the surface give vast insight into the appearance and evolution of flying creatures.

The first creatures that are known to have flied are insects, according to Conquest of the Skies. Some early insects that flew are believed to have had hard "protective covers" for their thin wings, which could be easily damaged. Today, insects continue to fly all around the world.

Several years after insects first took to the skies, various species of dinosaurs (most notably pterodactyls and microraptors) began flight as well. In particular, pterodactyls had the advantage of having much more energy than any insects, and thus were able to fly further and higher. Today, the descendants of dinosaurs continue to soar through the skies. We call them birds.