LOS ANGELES: SpaceX on Thursday announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the moon using its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a massive launch vehicle that is being designed to carry people into deep space. This is not the first time the California-based company, headed by Internet entrepreneur and Tesla electric car CEO Elon Musk, has touted plans to send tourists around the Moon. In February, 2017, SpaceX announced it would send the world's first two space tourists around the Moon in late 2018. The BFR is SpaceX's newest rocket, a super powerful launch vehicle with 31 engines and the capacity to lift 150 tons into space. "I feel fairly confident that we can complete the ship and launch in about five years," Mr Musk said.

Source: Bangkok Post September 14, 2018 02:47 UTC