Musk’s SpaceX Plans 2018 Flight Circling Moon With Civilians
- Two passengers paid a ‘significant deposit,’ company says
- SpaceX also targets 2018 crewed mission to Space Station
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Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with NASA for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station.
The passengers, who each paid a “significant deposit,” will undergo health and fitness tests and begin initial training later this year, the company said in a blog post Monday. SpaceX didn’t identify the two citizens or say how much they spent to book the trip that will use the Falcon Heavy, a new rocket in development that SpaceX has yet to fly.