Meet the Japanese billionaire Elon Musk pay for a trip around the moon

Meet the Japanese billionaire Elon Musk pay for a trip around the moon

SpaceX Elon Musk introduced, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to go set up the world’s first space tourist on Monday evening the company’s announcement for a trip around the moon. “Finally I can tell you that I chose to go to the moon!” During a press conference said Maezawa at the headquarters of the air carrier, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Maezawa trip will not take place until at least 2023 on a rocket, but its built. The mission could be delayed for a variety of reasons, including production delays and more. Here’s what to know about Yusaku Maezawa. Who is Yusaku Maezawa? Maezawa, 42, lives in Chiba, a town 25 miles south-east of Tokyo. It was a billionaire through his mid-30s, made his fortune in online trading. He started Japanese giant e-commerce to start today in 1998 and the popular fashion market Zozotown in 2004. He is the 18th Japan’s richest man, according to Forbes, with a personal fortune of $2.9 billion. An art enthusiastic collector, is known for dramatic splurges. In 2016 it fell nearly $100 million in a spending spree on two art auctions in New York. His most expensive known purchase is estimated to a great work of Jean-Michel Basquiat for $110.5 million dollars. What is Maezawa do while traveling? Maezawa is not only on the moon. She plans to invite between six and eight artists to join him on the journey called in a project dear moon, announced launched online shortly after his trip. “These artists are invited to create something after their return to Earth, and these masterpieces are the dreamer in all of us inspiration,” he said during the press conference. He said he wanted the artists to “see the moon up close, and see the full size land, and to create work to reflect on their experiences.” How much can Maezawa has SpaceX for the trip? We do not know for sure. Maezawa found, did not say the price of his journey, but Moss was “a lot of money.” The trip is for artists invites freely together, Maezawa added. What does mean for booking Maezawa SpaceX? It ‘a big boost for SpaceX and CEO, Elon Musk. SpaceX is still working on building the 387-foot Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) you plan to use for your flight to the moon. Musk said the payment Maezawa big enough to “have a significant impact on cost and the payment of BFR development” is that it could cost up to $5000000000 in total. The moon has seen no human visitors since 1972 and the last Apollo mission of NASA. But Moss’s ambitions go beyond our lunar satellite – the BFR, who hopes to end support for the human visitors to Mars too. Musk believes that it is important to be for humanity a multi-planetary species, and the fund that space tourism high view could help. The announcement is also good news for bits Musk, who has been criticized lately for the struggles to his other big companies, electric car manufacturer Tesla, and is from one cave divers who sued Musk reported without evidence is a pedophile.