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Bitcoin Billionaire Books First SpaceX Mars Mission
TL;DR
Chun Wang, co-founder of F2Pool, will lead SpaceX's first private crewed mission to Mars. The launch date remains unannounced, and Wang will first participate in a lunar flight aboard Starship.
Key points
- Chun Wang will command SpaceX's first private crewed Mars mission
- SpaceX has not announced a launch date for the mission
- Wang will first participate in a Starship flight around the moon
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In brief
- Chun Wang, co-founder of F2Pool, one of the first Bitcoin mining pools, will command SpaceX's first private crewed Mars mission.
- SpaceX has not announced a launch date; Starship has not yet reached orbit or carried astronauts to space.
- Before Mars, Wang will join a separate Starship flight around the moon.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has tapped Chun Wang, co-founder of F2Pool, one of the first Bitcoin mining pools in China, to command the first private crewed mission to Mars. The company gave no launch date.
The announcement came during a livestream of the now scrubbed Starship V3 launch on Thursday, minutes before that launch attempt was scheduled to take place.
"A lot of people [are] talking about the whole Mars to be like we're going to fly to Mars, we're going to land on Mars, we're going to build [a] city on Mars,” Wang said in a recorded video from the remote Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic. “But let's get it started with a flyby."
Wang already has one spaceflight on his record. Last year, Wang funded and commanded Fram2, a three-day polar orbit mission aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, where he and three crewmates were the first four people to fly over Earth's poles.
“Space was great. I already read a lot about space all my life, and I just went there for verification,” Wang said during an interview at Bitcoin 2025. “So, don’t trust, verify. I verified space.”
Starship is SpaceX's fully reusable super heavy-lift rocket, the largest and most powerful ever built, designed to carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Q&A
Who is Chun Wang and what is his role in the SpaceX Mars mission?
Chun Wang is the co-founder of F2Pool and will command SpaceX's first private crewed mission to Mars.
When is SpaceX planning to launch its first crewed mission to Mars?
SpaceX has not announced a launch date for its first private crewed mission to Mars.
What will Chun Wang do before the Mars mission?
Before the Mars mission, Chun Wang will join a separate Starship flight around the moon.
