The company revealed that Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa will be its first paying passenger—if the trip ever happens, that is.
The news: The founder of online retailer Zozo is slated to take his trip to the moon in 2023 aboard the yet-to-be-built Big Falcon Rocket (aka the BFR, or Big F*****g Rocket). But Maezawa didn’t just buy one seat on the flight; he bought them all. His intends to bring six to eight artists along for the ride. “I choose to go to the moon, with artists,” he said at the SpaceX press conference.
How it’ll work: While how much Maezawa paid hasn’t yet been divulged, his payment will contribute to the tens of billions of dollars required to get the BFR off the ground.
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