Pelley americas long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. The announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. Musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttles last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. Heres don dahler. Two, one, zero, liftoff. Lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. Theyve already put down whats described as a serious deposit. Cbs news space expert bill harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near
With scott pelley. Harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moons surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. Theyll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. Three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for 60 minutes his friends were dubious. I had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. Pelley what did they tell you . One good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. He just didnt want me to lose all my money. Reporter in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. Still, musk is known for making bold predictions that
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