SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

[lars63]

Cool stuff you got to admit:
SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018, the company's founder Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27).
The private spaceflight company will use its Falcon Heavy rocket to send the two paying passengers into space aboard one of the company's Dragon spacecraft. The two private citizens, who have not yet been named, approached SpaceX about taking a trip around the moon, and have "already paid a significant deposit" for the cost of the mission, according to a statement from the company. The names of the two individuals will be announced later, pending the result of initial health tests to ensure their fitness for the mission, the statement said. Read More:

http://www.space.com/35844-elon-musk-sp ... today.html

[scared?]

Cuz they can't land on it obviously...

[Transient]

I bet it's Zuckerberg and Chan.

[Whiskey 7]

I heard this yesterday and thought, hang on, if I had the money (and they'd take me) would I do the trip? I didn't think too long about it and the answer would be yes.

[Eraser]

Some people speculate one of em is James Cameron. He's got the money and could actually make money off of it if he made it into a documentary film.

[Whiskey 7]

That would be awesome..

[Transient]

Some people speculate one of em is James Cameron. He's got the money and could actually make money off of it if he made it into a documentary film.

He's already been to one place that nobody else has been to, so it wouldn't shock me to hear it's him. I bet it's probably safer in a space shuttle than the deepest submersible.