27-02-2017 23:14 via theverge.com

SpaceX plans to send two people around the Moon

SpaceX has plans to send two private citizens around the Moon, CEO Elon Musk announced today.It will be a private mission with two paying customers, not NASA astronauts, who approached the company. The passengers are “very serious” about the trip and have already paid a “significant deposit,” according to Musk. The trip around the Moon would take approximately one week: it would skim the surface of the Moon, go further out into deep space, and loop back to Earth — a
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