
Space Exploration Technology Corp. (SpaceX) on Monday announced that it will send a privately crewed Dragon spacecraft around the moon in late 2018.In a statement on its website, the company said it was approached by two private citizens, who it said already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. SpaceX expects to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training, later this year. Other flight teams have expressed strong interest, SpaceX said, and it expects…