DESTINATION Mars Orbit.
The term "Destination Mars" has been used for years as a rallying cry for actually going to Mars, as a destination. Not an elliptical empty orbit around the sun, whose apogee happens to go as far away from the sun as the planet Mars' distance from the sun.
Lots of space experts took what he said to mean it was going to Mars.
Space.Com and so many others:
Elon Musk Will Launch His Tesla Roadster to Mars on SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket
https://www.space.com/38968-elon-musk-falcon-heavy-rocket-tesla-roadster.html
Of course, as I said to being with, I didn't take it as 100%.
Just another example to take what he posts with more gains of salt until either someone else at SpaceX confirms or explains what he said (as had to be done the next day). Or he finally "officially" clears up what he MEANT to say.
I vividly recall the first booster attempt to land on an ASDS, SES-9, which crashed in the most extreme manner. It ran out of hydraulic fluid for the grid fins, so was out of position laterally. The guidance programming steered the Falcon at the ASDS barge like a Kamikaze missile. Well , it was tilted at about 45 degrees, flying a diagonal path at the ASDS. No chance at all to slow down and land safely. In any case it hit the ASDS at high speed and was totally destroyed.
Well, heck, it was the first try. They underestimated how much hydraulic fluid would be needed, and solved that problem. What got me was this:
Musk tweeted that: It had a "hard landing" (No, in aerospace a "hard landing" may cause damage to the vehicle but it may be repairable and passengers/crew usually survive unless there is some other complication like an ensuing fire). it CRASHED. A Hard landing was what some of the next few landing failures had.
He tweeted there was no video of the landing attempt.
And he tweeted that "It was too dark to see anything, anyway" (or words that effect).
Days later, turned out there was video and it was not too dark to see THIS massive crash.
[video=youtube;6Zq8-MHInig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zq8-MHInig[/video]
In other news, the CRS-13 static firing was pushed back from today to Tuesday. May make it tight for launching on Friday the 8th as scheduled.