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The eccentric Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight civilian volunteers to break down with him to the Moon during the first private commercial spaceflight ever.
The week-long voyage, initially announced in 2018 and named “dearMoon,” is aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Rocket, formerly known as the SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket, by 2023.
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Although the next generation Starship is still on the test, some runs will end in fiery collapses, but Musk has assured that he will be ready to tackle two years and said he believes the mission will make a real difference. ‘
It will take three days to reach the lunar planet. The Starship will walk behind it and then begin its three-day journey back home, making it the furthest distance any human has ever traveled from Earth.
In a video posted Tuesday, the Zozo founder explained that the full passenger list will include 10 to 12 crew members. The 45-year-old will bankrupt the expedition, but how that is still unclear.
Although Maezawa originally specified that applicants are artists, the plan has since ‘evolved’.
“Every person who does something creative can be called an artist … and that’s why I wanted to reach out to a larger, more diverse audience,” he said.
The CEO of Start Today Co now has only two requirements: to be able to print the envelope to help the ‘larger society’ in some way, and to be willing to support other crew members who have ‘similar aspirations’.
Each selected participant will wear a custom-made SpaceX suit designed to provide a pressure environment for all members and to send communications and cooling systems to the astronauts during regular flights.
It is especially in January last year that Maezawa also launched a strange campaign to find a ‘female partner’ who would accompany him, receiving 27,722 applications from single women over the age of 20.
The chosen person will star in a reality show about the process on the Japanese streaming service AbemaTV.
After criticism, however, he quickly put off the search and apology issued.
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Currently, the pre-applications for the selection process are PT by 14 March at 18:59 and the first selection starts a week later. The last interviews and medical examinations are scheduled for the end of May.
Inspiration4, another civilian mission in support of the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, is aiming to take off in the SpaceX’s Dragon – already certified for human flight – as soon as the end of the year.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.