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The Thursday release did not include specific launch dates for Wang's lunar or Mars missions

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'No longer a distant place': F2Pool Co-founder Chun Wang joins SpaceX's 2-year mission to Mars.

SpaceX noted that it has safely flown 78 crew members to and from space across 20 missions since 2020, which included seven commercial and private astronaut missions.

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Chun Wang, co-founder of bitcoin mining pool operator F2Pool, will participate in SpaceX's first human spaceflight mission to Mars. According to SpaceX's Thursday release, Wang will board its Starship spacecraft on a two-year mission that is set to explore outside the Earth-Moon system and conduct a Mars fly-by before returning to Earth. Before the trip to Mars, Chun will join SpaceX's first commercial human spaceflight around the Moon on Starship, which is scheduled to last one week. "After we come back from Mars, we will have the opportunity to take some real photos, especially of Mars," Wang said in an attached video. The Thursday release did not include specific launch dates for Wang's lunar or Mars missions.

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