SpaceX Says It Can Beat NASA To Moon
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Credit: Artist’s concept of Dragon 2 in space: SpaceX
SpaceX has two paying customers for a lunar flyaround, and will try to send them on their way before the end of 2018, founder Elon Musk said Feb. 27. If the ambitious schedule is met, it would beat an accelerated mission NASA is studying to send two astronauts on an eight-day flight around the Moon...
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