Inside the alien spaceship cockpit of the first 1,000-mph car

Andy Green will enter his carbon-fiber office via a hatch barely large enough to fit a soccer ball. At full lick, he’ll be covering a mile every 3.6 seconds, powered by a jet engine and rocket making the equivalent of 135,000 thrust hp – or 180 Formula One cars. His speedometer will read up to 1,100 mph, the noise within the cockpit will be like a constant gunshot, and temperatures will exceed 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

But this is no supersonic airplane. This is the Bloodhound SSC land racing car, a machine Green hopes will take him over 1,000 mph when he attempts to break his own record in the South African desert in 2016.

Bloodhound SSC has slowly been releasing information on its racer as the development process continues. Just last month, it told us how it planned to stop the car after its record run, and now we’re given an inside look at the car’s cockpit and controls.