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SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Dennis Tito, Around the Moon
- Tito and his wife sign up for a trip on SpaceX’s Starship
- Vessel still needs to go through a series of trials and tests
SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko.
The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long journey. The trip doesn’t include a landing on the lunar surface and it’s unclear if the other passengers have been chosen yet.