Elon Musk And SpaceX Want To Send You To The Moon On A ‘Big F**king Rocket’

From Esquire

Picture it now: you and Elon Musk, taking turns on a big, honking bifta as you sail through the starry cosmos on a rocket ship. It’s truly the stuff that dreams are made of.

Except the dream could soon become a reality if the entrepreneur's aerospace manufacturer, SpaceX, pulls off its next ambitious mission. The company announced on Thursday that it's planning on sending a “private passenger” on a moon flight using SpaceX’s new BFR rocket.

BFR stands for “Big Falcon Rocket”, but is known internally as “Big Fucking Rocket”. It hasn’t yet been launched into orbit, and not much is known about the design or specifics, but the heavy-lifting rocket will eventually be used to carry crews and cargo to the moon and Mars.

"SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle -- an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space," SpaceX tweeted on Thursday. "Find out who's flying and why on Monday, September 17."

A second tweet continued: "only 24 humans have been to the Moon in history. No one has visited since the last Apollo mission in 1972."

SpaceX didn’t provide a mission date, but Musk has been talking up a flight around the moon for years now. In 2017 he revealed that he’d been approached by private individuals, but refused to reveal their names.

“They're very serious about it,” he said at the time. “We plan to do that, probably in the fourth quarter of next year. That would be on a Dragon 2 spacecraft and a Falcon Heavy rocket, which is due to do its maiden launch this summer."

The exciting announcement distracts from a troublesome couple of months for Elon, who has become embroiled in a number of controversies (most of his own doing). Maybe it's finally time to straighten up and fly right (to the moon! Ha ha!)

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