SpaceX has been an innovative company right from the day it was first conceived by Tesla electric car CEO Elon Musk. Now the California based company plans to use it’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) to launch a tourist around the moon. Their Twitter handle said that SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle – an important step towards enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.

A human has not stepped on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972. American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to explore the lunar surface in 1969. Since then only 24 people have ever been to the moon. President Donald Trump has been pushing NASA to put boots on the lunar surface. NASA hopes to create a lunar gateway on the Moon that will serve as a launching point for future missions heading into deep space.

SpaceX is a primary commercial partner of NASA in it’s endeavor. It’s BFR is the newest rocket with a capacity to lift 150 tons in to space using the power of it’s 31 engines. This super powerful launch vehicle is also what the Moon tourist, whose name or monetary contribution to the science project have not been divulged, will ride.