ONE TICKET SOLD, but we’re over the MOON

Space X set to announce name of passenger on September 17

Space X 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.

“Space X has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle — an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space,” the company said on Twitter.

Space X gave no further details, but said more information would follow on Monday.

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, Space X announced it would send the world’s first two space tourists around the Moon in late 2018.

That plan called for them to ride on a Dragon crew vehicle, similar to the cargo ships that Space X routinely sends loaded with supplies to the International Space Station.

They would have blasted off aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket.

However, the company has remained mum about those plans in recent months.

The names and identities of those two tourists — and how much they intended to pay — were never revealed.

Space X declined an AFP request for more details, but said further information would follow on Monday at an event lasting from 5.30pm to 7pm (0030 GMT to 0200 GMT). —