Billionaire Dennis Tito signs on to visit moon as tourist with SpaceX | USA TODAY

Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, visited the International Space Station in 2001. This time, he wants to head to the moon on a SpaceX Starship.

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SpaceX entered into an agreement with Space Adventures, a company that organizes spaceflights for private citizens. Space Adventures said it agreed to fly a group of private citizens on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was developed for NASA flights to the International Space Station, on the first "free-flyer mission."

"This will provide up to four individuals with the opportunity to break the world altitude record for private citizen spaceflight and see planet Earth the way no one has since the Gemini program," the company said in a release. A timeline for the mission and costs were not provided, but a typical commercial Falcon 9 launch – without Crew Dragon – costs $50 million to $65 million.

"Honoring our combined histories, this Dragon mission will be a special experience and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – capable of reaching twice the altitude of any prior civilian astronaut mission or space station visitor,” said Eric Anderson, chairman of Space Adventures.

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