ELON Musk’s space company has signed up the first private passenger to fly around the moon.
The name of the person and the timing of the flight will be announced on Monday at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Mr Musk originally suggested two paying passengers would fly around the moon this year, using a Falcon Heavy rocket and a Dragon crew capsule.
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Protest at HMP Bedford. Photo by PA
CONCERNS over prison violence that sparked a mass walk-out by officers have been recognised by the Government as “justified”, their union said.
Members of the POA, the trade union for prison staff, were told to return to work by 1pm following “meaningful engagement” with prisons minister Rory Stewart.
Mr Stewart “recognised that our concerns are justified and need addressing” following Friday’s protest, General secretary Steve Gillan said.
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Salisbury incident. Photo by PA
The Kremlin has said it will consider any request by Britain to question the two suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
The UK has accused the two Russian men, who appeared on Russian television on Thursday, of the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any request from London to interview them would be considered in “strict accordance with the law” but so far the British had rejected any offer to co-operate in the investigation, the Tass news agency reported.
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