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SpaceX Delays Plans for First Space Tourists to Circle Moon

by kldaace on 6/3/18, 8:33 PM with 10 comments

• by nickik on 6/4/18, 12:50 AM

  What? That has been know for a long time? How is that news?

  This has been changed because of the change in the contract with NASA. NASA no longer wanted to have propulsive landing and SpaceX prefer to focus on the BFR. This made space tourism less valuable and also lead to the choice not to human rate the Falcon Heavy. The same reason that Red Dragon was cancelled.

  SpaceX simply shifted all its focus on the BFR. That's their long term goal and other things are a distraction.

• by l0b0 on 6/3/18, 11:08 PM

  Or to put it another way: Holy shit, it's just a year away!

• by greglindahl on 6/4/18, 1:26 AM

  This "Grey Dragon" mission was canceled Feb 5, 2018: http://spacenews.com/spacex-no-longer-planning-crewed-missio...

• by sixQuarks on 6/3/18, 11:01 PM

  Is this even a surprise? C'mon, everyone knows Musk has unrealistic deadlines. He gets shit done, it just takes longer than expected. This isn't even news anymore

• by aventrix on 6/3/18, 11:02 PM

  This is just another hit piece against Elon and his companies, this isn't news.