SpaceX plans to send two private citizens around the Moon, CEO Elon Musk announced today.

The flight will travel about 300, 000 to 400,000 miles. It will carry two private paying citizens, not astronauts.

The trip is supposed to be taken in the second quarter of 2018 on the Dragon 2 space craft with the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is due to take it’s maiden launch summer of 2017.

 

This is a video of the Falcon.

 

This is a video of an animation of the Falcon Heavy.