Here’s What’s So Worrying About Elon Musk’s Latest Moon Plans

Sep 21, 2018, 11:38 AM

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Things are going to get awfully busy for Elon Musk in 2023. That’s the year that Japanese entrepreneur and paying passenger Yusaku Maezawa will set off on his just-announced one-week mission around the moon aboard Musk’s waggishly named BFR—which nominally stands for "Big Falcon Rocket" but, this being Musk, stands for something else, too.