Moon tours will have to wait until mid 2019

Tourists who want to go round the moon would ride aboard a Dragon capsule, hoisted into space on SpaceX's most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy. Photo: AFP

SpaceX will not send tourists around the Moon this year as previously announced, and will delay the project until the middle of next year, US media reported on Monday.

“A new timetable for the flight – now postponed until at least mid-2019 and likely longer – hasn’t been released” by the California-based company, said the report in The Wall Street Journal.