Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle.
International News: A globally recognised art curator and fashion innovator, Japan’s Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger to fly around the Moon on board the BFR, according to billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Yusaku will be bringing 8 (brave) artists & cultural figures with him on the journey around the moon, tweeted Musk.
SpaceX signing the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle is an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space, according to the company.
Yusaku Maezawa
Lasting about a week, the journey will come as close as 125 miles to the Moon’s surface before completing a lunar transit and returning to the Earth, the company said.The BFR, or Big Falcon Rocket, is SpaceX's forthcoming spaceship system consisting of two parts — a massive rocket booster that promises to outpower any other ever built, and a towering spacecraft that will vault out of the Earth's atmosphere.
SpaceX’s next generation vehicle BFR will be the most powerful rocket in history, capable of carrying humans to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the company claims.
Only 24 human beings in history have been to the Moon, and no one since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
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