{"id":82544,"date":"2018-09-13T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacex-booked-worlds-first-private-passenger-for-a-bfr-moon-trip"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:13:50","slug":"spacex-booked-worlds-first-private-passenger-for-a-bfr-moon-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/spacex-booked-worlds-first-private-passenger-for-a-bfr-moon-trip","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX booked \u2018world\u2019s first\u2019 private passenger for a BFR Moon trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zu7WJD8vpAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t seen SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/BFR\/\">BFR<\/a> \u2014 the rocket that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/29\/space-x-mars-bfr-elon-musk\/\">it hopes will enable trips around the world, to the Moon, and, eventually, to Mars<\/a> \u2014 actually take flight yet, but the company says it has already booked a private passenger for a trip around the Moon. No one has been there since Apollo missions ended in the 70s, but now, in a \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d SpaceX is apparently taking reservations. Details like who is going and \u201cwhy\u201d are to be revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/webcast\">during a livestream<\/a> on Monday September 17th at 9 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/13\/spacex-moon-bfr\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/13\/spacex-moon-bfr\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven\u2019t seen SpaceX\u2019s BFR \u2014 the rocket that it hopes will enable trips around the world, to the Moon, and, eventually, to Mars \u2014 actually take flight yet, but the company says it has already booked a private passenger for a trip around the Moon. No one has been there since Apollo missions ended [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82645,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544\/revisions\/82645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}