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Space X BFR lunar Mission

Published: 25th Sep, 2018

A Japanese billionaire YusakuMaezawa, will be the first private passenger to fly on Space X Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) around the moon as early as 2023.

Context

A Japanese billionaire YusakuMaezawa, will be the first private passenger to fly on Space X Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) around the moon as early as 2023.

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Space X is building Big Falcon Rocket, a next generation rocket and spaceship system to send people to Mars by 2024 and set up a colony on it within next 50 to 100 years.
BFR could also launch satellites to Low Earth Orbit, and clean up orbital debris as well as transport passengers around earth at record speeds.
The rocket system which is under construction, will consist of rocket and a spaceship, capable of carrying more than 100 passengers at a time.
Both rocket and spaceship will be reusable.
YusakuMaezawa will be first lunar traveller since last U.S Apollo mission in 1972.