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SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:26 pm
by 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

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:45 pm
by scared?
Cuz they can't land on it obviously...

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:52 pm
by Transient
I bet it's Zuckerberg and Chan.

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:11 pm
by 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.

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:43 am
by 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.

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:11 am
by Whiskey 7
That would be awesome..

Re: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:04 am
by Transient
Eraser wrote: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.