Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has been named as the first tourist who will fly around the moon using SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), according to CEO Elon Musk.
If all goes as planned, of course it will, the founder of Japan’s largest online clothing retailer Zozotown hopes to reach the moon in 2023. That’s right, no one has told this guy he’ll be visiting a Hollywood studio… not yet.
To keep him company during the trip, one of Japan’s richest men also intends to invite “six to eight artists” on board. Oh boy, it always gets better.
In its press release, SpaceX says, and we quote: “If SpaceX eventually completes its costly spacecraft, Maezawa will become the first human to pass by the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972”.
We can’t wait.
