Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa has picked eight passengers that he said will join him on a trip around the moon, powered by SpaceX's yet-to-be-flown Starship spacecraft.
Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa has picked eight passengers that he said will join him on a trip around the moon, powered by SpaceX's yet-to-be-flown Starship spacecraft.
"I can't miss this opportunity," Aoki said in a video announcement. "My soul is, is begging for this." Maezawa is paying an undisclosed sum for the trip, and he has said he will take his passengers free of charge. Since the Dear Moon mission was first announced, Maezawa made his first journey to space, taking a self-funded, 12-day journey to the International Space Station. That December 2021 trip made use of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is still in development at the company's testing facilities in South Texas.
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