Who Is SpaceX's Mystery Moon Passenger?
Previous lunar travelers have all looked the same. Could this one be different?
“The moon is essentially grey, no color. Looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.”
This was how Jim Lovell described the lunar surface in 1968 from his perch about 60 miles above the moon. Lovell and his fellow NASA astronauts never touched down, but they returned to Earth with memories of what was, at the time, the closest view a human being had ever experienced of the planet’s rocky companion.
Nearly 50 years after the Apollo 8 mission, SpaceX wants to give someone that view again.
