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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/space_tourism.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Space Tourism and Business Looking Up' data-article-id='2236'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13979'>It was a surprising announcement: SpaceX, a private company, said it will fly two people to the moon next year.</span> <span data-start-time='13979' data-end-time='23917'>This has not been attempted since NASA’s Apollo moon landings about 45 years ago.</span> <span data-start-time='23917' data-end-time='32104'>The news came from SpaceX founder and chief executive officer, Elon Musk.</span> <span data-start-time='32104' data-end-time='37625'>He is a billionaire who made his money from technology.</span> <span data-start-time='37625' data-end-time='55604'>In a news conference, he said two people have already paid SpaceX a “significant” amount of money to send them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon and back.</span> <span data-start-time='55604' data-end-time='61021'>No one has been to the moon since 1972.</span> <span data-start-time='61021' data-end-time='73958'>NASA flew 24 astronauts around it, and twelve Americans walked on its surface beginning in 1969.</span> <span data-start-time='73958' data-end-time='86104'>Elon Musk’s plan is “a bold challenge” says Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF).</span> <span data-start-time='86104' data-end-time='96208'>The group has more than 70 members in the spaceflight business, including Musk’s SpaceX.</span> <span data-start-time='96208' data-end-time='104729'>Stallmer says Musk’s work in the last ten years is “incredibly impressive.”</span> <span data-start-time='104729' data-end-time='116167'>He started SpaceX with his money, and now has large contracts with NASA and the U.S. defense department.</span> <span data-start-time='116167' data-end-time='121479'>And he is building reusable rockets.</span> <span data-start-time='121479' data-end-time='128042'>But Musk is not alone in the business race into space.</span> <span data-start-time='128042' data-end-time='137979'>Blue Origin, owned by Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, is also developing reusable rockets.</span> <span data-start-time='137979' data-end-time='144188'>Using them will bring down the cost of going into space.</span> <span data-start-time='144188' data-end-time='160938'>Last September, Bezos announced a new “heavy-lift” rocketone that will be able to deliver people and supplies to low-Earth orbit and farther, too.</span> <span data-start-time='160938' data-end-time='181854'>Other companies, like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, are building space airplanes to take passengers for a ride up into space and back 62,000 miles above Earth.</span> <span data-start-time='181854' data-end-time='195979'>Other companies are developing and building many products for spaceflight, like rockets, and housing for humans traveling and working in space.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/space_tourism.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8214 data-hint-location='73958' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/what_does_bold_mean.m4a'>What does bold mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='not afraid'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/interested.m4a'><span>interested</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/not_afraid.m4a'><span>not afraid</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/devious.m4a'><span>devious</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/hesitant.m4a'><span>hesitant</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8215 data-hint-location='32104' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/how_did_musk_make_his_money.m4a'>How did Musk make his money?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='technology'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/technology.m4a'><span>technology</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/building_rockets.m4a'><span>building rockets</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/investments.m4a'><span>investments</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/space_travel.m4a'><span>space travel</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=8216 data-hint-location='116167' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/musk_is_building__blank__rockets.m4a'>Musk is building <span class='blank'>reusable</span> rockets.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='reusable'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/defense.m4a'><span>defense</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/cargo.m4a'><span>cargo</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/disposable.m4a'><span>disposable</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1718/reusable.m4a'><span>reusable</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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