Last Monday, SpaceX said they will send two people to the moon in 2018 - a feat that hasn't been attempted since Apollo's heyday a little less than a half a century ago. The company's chief executive officer and founder, Elon Musk, a tech billionaire, announced the news to the world just barely after shooting, from NASA's legendary moon padm his first rocket. The two people who being launched know each other are "very serious" about it, but won't be named. "Fly me to the moon. . . Ok," commented Musk in a cheery tweet. If everything goes well, the whole fiasco could happen near in time to the 50th anniversary of NASA's first manned flight, on Apollo 8. The passengers on the flight paying to go would take a long loop around our moon, just touching the surface and then going far beyond. This would be about 300,000 or 400,000 miles in all. They would not land.
The SpaceX has a lot of firsts in its sights, ultimately looking at Mars. Within two weeks past, they made their latest delivery from Kennedy Space Center's extremely well known Launch Complex 39A, the place where the Apollo astronauts flew to the lunar land and shuttle crews "rocketed into orbit." At the same time, SpaceX on the so-called Red Dragon, which will fly to the moon in 2020 with experiments but no people, and it will not land. Happy Flying!
Here's the link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/spacex-fly-people-moon-year-45862693
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