NEWS: The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned to take place in 2023 on SpaceX's Starship rocket, and now the crew who is going has been announced: pic.twitter.com/neOaZ3ikB3
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) December 8, 2022
Let’s just do it and be legends!
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) December 8, 2022
As I understand it, the proposed voyage is a (fully automated!) week-long trip to orbit the moon and back. All the participants are volunteers, and presumably their loved ones have them heavily insured.
More power to them, even if it sounds more like a 13-episode anime or a single-season reality tv show than an actual space expedition… after all, ‘spam in a can‘ has an honorable position in space-flight history…
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