On February 27th. Elon Musk announced SpaceX’s ambitious plan to send two private citizens on a trip around the Moon. The two space tourists have already put down a substantial deposit towards the trip, which Musk says could happen as soon as late 2018. We don’t know how much the mission will cost, or what its prospects are for success. But it could kick off the first public-private space race between the private company and NASA.
He said two private individuals approached the company to see if SpaceX would be willing to send them on a week long cruise, which would fly past the surface of the moon but not land and continue outward before gravity turned the spacecraft around and brought it back to Earth for a landing.
The Unnamed two passengers who have paid for the trip to the moon have been approaching for a set to the moon in the end of 2018. The passengers will be trained “We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow,” and also they have said they will release the name of the crew and other flight teams who have interested in the trip after the conformation of the test.
DRAGON 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjSb_b4TtxI Dragon 2 is a name of the rocket to fly the passengers to the moon. In addition, this will make use of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which was developed with internal SpaceX funding. Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V moon rocket. At 5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, Falcon Heavy is two-thirds the thrust of Saturn V and more than double the thrust of the next largest launch vehicle currently flying.
Also they said the Dragon version 2 into the International Space Station (ISS) without the crew for demonstration for the SpaceX's MISSION in automatic mode. Actually they are now contracted to perform an average of four Dragon 2 missions to the ISS per year, three carrying cargo and one carrying crew. By also flying privately crewed missions, which NASA has encouraged, long-term costs to the government decline and more flight reliability history is gained, benefiting both government and private missions.
When the process will be success the SpaceX will launch the trip to the moon. The liftoff for the mission will take place in Kennedy Space Center’s historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral – the same launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions. In a calculation the trip will take 7 days (two to three days going to the Moon and another two to three coming back).
Challenges
The biggest Trouble is the launch. SpaceX has had some troubles with those in the past, and this time, people will be on board. The company has been taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of its launches, and it hasn’t experienced any mishaps since its Falcon 9 rocket explosion in September. Reentering the atmosphere is another challenge.Though designed for a touchdown, SpaceX has said previously that its Dragon spacecrafts can safely land anywhere, even on water. The success of SpaceX’s private lunar mission is in everyone’s best interests, of course. “Designed from the beginning to carry humans, the Dragon spacecraft already has a long flight heritage. These missions will build upon that heritage, extending it to deep space mission operations, an important milestone as we work towards our ultimate goal of transporting humans to Mars,” SpaceX said.
However we hope the trip will be end well and NASA will do more awesome projects.
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