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An artist rendition of the BFR flying over the moon. SpaceX has announced that it has signed the first person to be sent on a long loop around the Moon and returned to Earth. ( SpaceX | Twitter )
SpaceX really wants to make private passengers travel around the moon. The company is expected to announce its first customer next week.
Last year, founder Elon Musk expressed the company's intention of driving two people on a long loop leading to deep space and back to Earth.
Space Tourism
Thursday, September 13, SpaceX ad on Twitter that the first citizen subscribed to the trip out of the world. No name has been given, but the company has promised to reveal more details during a presentation scheduled on Monday, Sept. 17 at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Musk also confirmed the news and even hinted that the first passenger would be a Japanese.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2018
Only 42 people – including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – have been on the moon. The last time a human stepped on its surface, it was during the last Apollo mission in 1972.
SpaceF's BFR flying to deep space
The BFR or Big Falcon Rocket is SpaceX's spaceship system that has a rocket booster that promises to be the most powerful ever built and a spaceship that will be launched in deep space (called BFS) .
Musk, in a previous interview, m said that the company could start testing the spacecraft portion of the BFR by 2019.
Shotwell: think we are going to "skip" the second stage of BFR (the BFS) at the end of next year. # DARPA60 – Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) September 6, 2018
Gwynne Shotwell, COO of SpaceX, thinks the BFR could be able to launch "here in ten years".
Musk initially wanted to fly two passengers around the Moon aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket and a Dragon capsule. However, a few months later, he abandoned the initial plan and chose to fly over the Moon aboard the BFR and the BFS.
Little is known about the spacecraft. Neither the BFR nor the BFS were launched into orbit and the company revealed very little information on its design and development.
SpaceX has bigger projects for the BFR. Musk noted that the BFR could also be used to launch satellites, clean space wastes or even transport people on ultra-fast "point-to-point" paths on the Earth.
However, the main purpose of this spaceship is to help the human race become a species that has space. One day, the BFR could transport humans to and from the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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