A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon,
Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a
monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early
as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.
Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the
last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified
amount of money for the privilege.
"Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon,"
Maezawa said at SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory
in Hawthorne, California, in the middle of metropolitan
Los Angeles, late Monday.
Until now, Americans are the only ones who
have left Earth's orbit. A total of 24 NASA
astronauts -- all white men -- voyaged to the
Moon during the Apollo era of the 1960s and '70s.
Twelve walked on the lunar surface.
The first space tourist was Dennis Tito, an American
businessman who in 2001 paid some $20 million to
fly on a Russian spaceship to the International Space
Station.
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