SpaceX wants to send people to the deep space.
It is a private mission with two highly paying customers and not NASA astronauts, who approached the company secretly. These passengers are very serious about the trip and have already paid a huge amount to the company according to the CEO, Elon Musk. The trip will take the citizens around the Moon and would take approximately 7-10 days, it would skim the surface of the Moon, go further into deep space, and come back to Earth. SpaceX was the first company to deliver a cargo to the international space station in 2012.
The two people going on the trip, already know each other. SpaceX expects health and fitness tests along with initial training to take place this year.
The Crew Dragon (Dragon Version 2) spacecraft will take off from Kennedy Space Center's Pad-39A, near Cape Canaveral, it is the same pad used to launch the Apollo mission s in the '60s and '70s. Even though it wouldn't involve the government but SpaceX would still,need the US government's permission to fly its Moon mission. They need a launch license by the Federal Aviation Administration. There is no landing on the moon in this mission but it is still a great step taken by the company. SpaceX plans to reach out to the red planet, Mars and aims to colonize it.
