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The SpaceX aerospace transport company and the Space Adventure space tourism company reached an agreement on Tuesday for four people to go into space and climb into Earth's orbit on the space shuttle Crew Dragon.

Tourists who will travel with the company of the South African billionaire Elon Musk and Space Adventure, which organizes space trips to the International Space Station (ISS) and around the Moon, will be able to contemplate the Earth "in a way that nobody has seen since the Gemini program ".

"This historic mission will forge a path that will allow space flights to be possible for all people who dream of them, " SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said in a statement.

The Gemini program consisted of two-week missions that allowed astronauts to get used to the trip and the activities they would have to do before the missions to the Moon.

The four space travelers who, so far, do not know who they will be, will fly with the Falcon 9 rocket and stay in Earth's orbit for five days.

The launch of the first rocket with tourists will be at the end of 2021 as late, they told local media.

The four space travelers who, so far, do not know who they will be, will fly with the Falcon 9 rocket and stay in Earth's orbit for five days.

The announcement comes thanks to the success of the first Crew Dragon demonstration that took the ferry to the ISS in March 2019 and the recent mission last January.

"Honoring our combined stories, this Dragon mission will be a special experience and an opportunity in life to be twice as tall as any other civil space mission or visit to the International Space Station," said Space Adventure president Eric Anderson

To date, the company has organized eight expeditions to the IEE for a total of seven lucky ones: Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Greg Olsen, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi, Richard Garriott and Guy Laliberté.

"Creating unique and unprecedented opportunities so far for citizens to experience space is why Space Adventure exists. From 2001-2009 our clients made history by flying more than 36 million miles in eight separate missions to the IEE," he said. Anderson

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