SpaceX to name first passenger for a round trip to the moon
- By Web Desk -
- Sep 17, 2018
LOS ANGELES: SpaceX is likely to announce the name of the first man to go on a journey to the moon today (Monday).
CEO Elon Musk will name the individual that SpaceX says will be the 25th person to swing around the backside of the moon and the first since America’s Apollo missions ended in 1972.
The announcement is scheduled at the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX for short, in the Los Angeles.
The mission will be “an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space, SpaceX said in a tweet.
SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle—an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17. pic.twitter.com/64z4rygYhk
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 14, 2018
Musk posted photos Sunday showing a huge rocket that will be used for the mission, which also happens to be the one that the company plans to use to create a Mars colony in the next decade.
With the launch of a satellite earlier this month, SpaceX said it now has 60 successful blast offs.