{"id":18365,"date":"2018-09-14T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-gets-set-to-reveal-its-first-customer-for-bfr-flight-around-the-moon-and-back\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:05:04","slug":"spacex-gets-set-to-reveal-its-first-customer-for-bfr-flight-around-the-moon-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-gets-set-to-reveal-its-first-customer-for-bfr-flight-around-the-moon-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> A year and a half after saying it had two passengers signed up for a privately funded flight around the moon, SpaceX says it will reveal the first passenger\u2019s identity on Monday. In a tweet, SpaceX said the mission would be \u201can important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.\u201d The launch vehicle would be SpaceX\u2019s yet-to-be-built BFR (Big Falcon Rocket), which is expected to be ready by the early 2020s, rather than the Falcon Heavy as previously planned. So let the guessing game begin: Will the first named passenger be Google co-founder Sergey Brin? Would-be moon traveler (and billionaire) Harald McPike? Register your pick in the comment section. I\u2019m willing to mail a free pair of 3-D glasses to the first commenter with the right guess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 6:36 p.m. PT Sept. 13:<\/strong> Is it SpaceX founder Elon Musk? Musk replied to a tweeted question with a Japan flag emoji&nbsp;\u2014 which set off a new round of speculation. Expect more detective work over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 5:20 p.m. PT Sept. 17:<\/strong> Tune in the webcast for the event, which is due to start at 6 p.m. PT Sept. 17:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"First Private Passenger on Lunar Starship Mission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zu7WJD8vpAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: A year and a half after saying it had two passengers signed up for a privately funded flight around the moon, SpaceX says it will reveal the first passenger\u2019s identity on Monday. In a tweet, SpaceX said the mission would be \u201can important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2873,291,625,316],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bfr","tag-commercial-space","tag-moon","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}