Watch Elon Musk announce SpaceX’s first Moon passenger today at 6PM PT

This evening, SpaceX will announce the identity of a mystery passenger who has signed on to travel around the Moon in the company’s Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR. This customer will be the first private astronaut in history to go to the Moon (if no one else beats SpaceX to it) and one of a few dozen individuals to have ever gone to lunar space.
While the announcement is intriguing, we’ve been down this road with SpaceX before. In February 2017, Musk announced that the company had signed