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Title    SpaceX to Fly Two Tourists Around the Moon in 2018
Date    Tuesday February 28 2017, @06:57AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the to-the-moon-and-back dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/28/0252250

takyon writes:

Two paying customers will travel to the "deep space" beyond the Moon. SpaceX will use the Falcon Heavy to deliver an automated Crew Dragon capsule carrying the unnamed customers next year. Falcon Heavy has not flown yet, and is expected to be tested this summer. NASA will use the Crew Dragon capsule to send astronauts to the International Space Station in 2018, after an unmanned test this year.

SpaceX will not reveal the identities of the participants until they complete health and fitness tests:

We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results.


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Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "travel to the "deep space" beyond the Moon" - http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517579221/spacex-announces-plans-to-sent-two-customers-to-the-moon
  3. "Falcon Heavy has not flown yet" - http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/27/technology/spacex-moon-tourism/
  4. "SpaceX will not reveal the identities of the participants" - http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=18822

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