It has been a long time since that space race starring two governments like the United States and the former Soviet Union. Now it seems that this race is being carried out by several private companies, among them SpaceX that, as its own CEO, the visionary Elon Musk, is available to take space tourists to the moon in 2018.
As Elon Musk has assured, and surely you are thinking so, these two space tourists will not be two people who have been lucky enough to win some kind of event contest or something similar, but they are two very wealthy people who today have already paid much of the money that the trip will cost, in the words of Elon Musk himself, they have already paid a “significant deposit".
SpaceX has already selected the first two tourists who will travel to the Moon.
As for the necessary technology, tell you that SpaceX has the versatile Dragon V2 capsule that will foreseeably be propelled by the Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful that the US company has in production. Despite its power, the trip is expected to last about a week since the capsule, from taking off on land, will have to travel a distance of between 482.000 and 644.000 kilometers, distance that corresponds to the distance between the Moon and the Earth of round trip and the return that the capsule will give circumnavigating the Moon.
Moment the identity of these two people is unknown Although, it is known that in the coming months a program will begin where it will seek to physically condition these space passengers as well as offer them a minimum training so that they know how to act in case of emergency.
Further information: SpaceX