Wednesday, March 8, 2017

To the moon

As a followup on my February 21 post, here is some new information coming from SpaceX.

Not only do we know that they intend to send people into space in 2018, but we may soon know some of their names, as announced on the website:

"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." (dependent on health and fitness tests as well as some training)

"Designed from the beginning to carry humans, the Dragon spacecraft already has a long flight heritage. These missions [several cargo/crew planned missions this year and next] will build upon that heritage, extending it to deep space mission operations, an important milestone as we work towards our ultimate goal of transporting humans to Mars."



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