Monday, February 27, 2017

SpaceX returning humans to the Moon next year

SpaceX announced today that they have been approached to launch 2 private citizens on a mission to the Moon. The two customers have already paid a significant deposit to go and will be launched on SpaceX's upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket. Debuting later this year, the Falcon Heavy will launch from LC-39a with a demo payload for its first mission. It will be the most powerful rocket to be currently launching once successfully launched. It has two-thirds the amount of thrust as the Saturn V and has more than double the amount of thrust as the largest rocket currently launching. The two people will be launching inside the Dragon V2 spacecraft that is currently under development and being funded by NASA's commercial crew program and will preform an unmanned flight to the ISS this year and a manned flight sometime next year. 

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