In 2018, Elon Musk's spaceflight company, SpaceX is set to take people and fly them to the moon. They will be taken there through Falcon Heavy Rocket, Dragon V2 crew capsule will then be boarded on it. It's now or never for Musk, for he is not wasting time.

In fact, the announcement came from Musk. He said on 27 February, two private persons asked to be taken to a trip to the moon next year through SpaceX. The CEO iterated that the said passengers had already given the significant deposit for space escapade. This mission was similar to Apollo mission that took astronauts to the surface of the moon, according to Tech Times.

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A question has been raised regarding how urgent is the moonshot to transpire within the timetable of Musk. Through the details of the mission, one would find out how Musk's company prepared for the said journey. In 2018, specifically the second quarter, the two anonymous passengers will aviate via SpaceX. However, the two have to go through a health and wellness test, as well a training on spaceflight this year. The anticipated travel around the moon is a one week due.

The Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A has been considered to be the launching venue of the SpaceX, the pad which NASA had set up for Apollo missions. Musk stressed that the spacecraft would be independent which implies that on board it would not require skilled astronauts.

Musk assured that the capsule has to be substantially advanced for enhanced communications for the deep-space mission. SpaceX has been anticipated to engage skimming on the moon's surface, rather than an actual landing. A 400,000-mile journey is the expected of the said spacecraft travel into the deep space to and fro from the moon back to the earth.

In order to meet the mission timeframe and triumphantly launch the spacecraft, a lot of things should be done right, experts said.

The previous manager of NASA's space shuttle program, Wayne Hale pointed out that it would be incredibly hard and incredibly perilous to undergo Musk's project regardless of the existence of the state-of-the-art space potentialities.

Hale said to Space.com that he thinks Musk's schedule is so unbelievable for being that aggressive. He further added that he was happy to know that no single penny from taxpayers was used to finance the mission. The former manager then hopes the best for the passengers and the rest of Musk's team.

Furthermore, Hale expressed his observation that among SpaceX manned mission, nothing was successfully launched. It was because Falcon Heavy Rocket and Dragon V2 spacecraft were still in pre-launch. The former was set to fly this summer, whereas the latter was still in the process of advancement.

SpaceX had as well inked an agreement with NASA with its mission to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), which includes not the Falcon Heavy rockets, but the Falcon 9.

Phil Larson, a SpaceX expert and skilled for space policy iterated that "however, "challenging" does not necessarily translate to "impossible."

Larson elaborated that having it moved to 2019 would still be historic. If it would be a little bit late for some months it would not extremely change the intensity of the mission.

Moreover, the SpaceX veteran said that setting timetables aggressively is just Musk's impulse for the reason that it already had a track record of making things realized. Thus, it became the first private company to launch a capsule Earth orbit and was completely back to the planet in 2010, cited News America.

A month ago, a cargo towards The ISS has been victoriously launched by NASA and SpaceX which blasted around 5,500 pounds. It was full of supplies and research tools into the space lab. It was regarded as the first commercial launch carried out from the historical LC-39A.