Transcript for Historic announcement from SpaceX

You are looking at a falcon nine rocket on David Curley and Hawthorne California this is SpaceX headquarters which later in the day. We'll have reporters from all over the world coming to find out who Elon Musk has signed up to be the first person. To fly around the moon in his new rocket now that looks like a big rocket. But the rocket that mosque is building is called a BFR a big Falcon Rocket. It's not even been built yet so there are a lot of questions when with a rocket need Belden who is this person how much are they paying. What are they going to actually fly around the moon and is it safe. A lot of questions answered later in the day. I'm David Curley.

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