It’s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue moon!
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
- His mission, called ‘Dear Moon’, is scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Starship rocket in 2023.
- Maezawa says he “will pay for the entire journey,” so those who join him will fly for free. On Wednesday, in a video posted on his Twitter account, he said, “I’m inviting you to join me on this mission. Eight of you from all around the world.”
- Anyone who meets two criteria could get picked for the ride: those who “can push its envelope to help other people and greater society in some way” and are “willing to support other crew members who share similar aspirations.”
- The first stage of the application process runs to Mar 14.
- Maezawa and his band of astronauts will become the first lunar voyagers since the last US Apollo mission in 1972 – if SpaceX can pull the trip off.
Maezawa, the founder of Japan’s largest online fashion retailer, is worth about $2 billion. He was revealed as Starship’s first signed passenger back in 2018 during an event with CEO Elon Musk at SpaceX’s California headquarters.
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