KEY POINTS 
  • Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX's Starship rocket. 
  • It's the third such spaceflight Elon Musk's venture has announced to date.
  • Timing for the mission is yet to be determined, and likely years away.
  • Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX's Starship rocket, the third such spaceflight Elon Musk's venture has announced to date.

    Tito – 82, and famous for becoming the first private space tourist after flying with Russia to the International Space Station in 2001 – bought two seats on a SpaceX mission that would fly a Starship to the moon and back on a week-long mission.