This Monday, the SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced that the space transport company intends to send two people, not astronauts, to take a ride on the moon. Tesla's owner and co-founder said these two people "already paid a significant amount" for the mission on Earth. Moon. 42m4n
Initial training as well as endurance and health tests will be done later this year, according to SpaceX. The importance of the announcement is that this is the first flight to Moon with engers for over 45 years.
“Like the Apollo astronauts, these people will travel carrying the hopes and dreams of all humanity, driven by the spirit of the universal human desire to explore.”
SpaceX's intention is turn spaceflight into a reality. Just as Musk intends get to Mars and take people on a population mission, the importance of this ad is that finally the common man (although not so normal) will be able to know the space and explore it (Ok, I'll take it easy on sci-fi).
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SpaceX, in a statement, spoke a little more about the mission
“SpaceX will have two ordinary citizens participate in a trip around the Moon later in the year. They have already paid a significant amount for this mission. We hope to conduct health and stamina tests, as well as start initial training later this year. Other flight teams have expressed great interest and we look forward to announcing more soon.”
As information about crew will only be released if they allow it. and if they the health and endurance tests. For the company, being able to send ordinary people to Moon it will be an important milestone for getting men to Mars.
Even if one step at a time, the future already looks more and more exciting and if Musk reaches that level, well, what will become of us in 3 years?
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