In a bold and surprising step, Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company SpaceX wants to fly people around moon and bring them back to Earth in 2018.
According to Musk, two private citizens — whose identities aren’t public yet — want to pay SpaceX to send them from Earth, around the moon and bring them back home aboard a crewed Dragon spacecraft and Falcon Heavy rocket.
“We’ve been approached to do a crewed mission beyond the moon,” Musk said during a press call Monday.
The flight profile would bring the space travelers down to “skim the surface of the moon” in a long loop around the lunar body, Musk said. Read more…
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