Steve Aoki, T.O.P to go on ‘Dear Moon’ SpaceX trip with Maezawa

The 10 folks Maezawa picked — which include two backup crew users — were selected from 1 million applicants, he stated. Their seats were paid for by Maezawa, whose web really worth stood at $1.7 billion as of Friday, in accordance to Forbes.

The crew will use a reusable launch vehicle made by SpaceX, the American company founded by Musk that has expanded civilian use of place. The ship will not land on the moon, but fly all around it in advance of returning to Earth. The vacation is predicted to very last just less than 6 times.

Maezawa, like Musk, has a large presence on Twitter. He retains the Guinness Globe Record for the most retweeted put up and announced the information on the social media platform. In the January 2019 tweet, Maezawa made available to give 1 million Japanese yen, value about $9,000 at the time, to 100 men and women just about every as an expression of thanks for “astonishing sales” at his business enterprise. People today who required to stand a possibility at profitable the prize had to retweet the post and comply with him.

Aoki and T.O.P are part of a multinational forged that also contains a British photographer, a Czech performer and an Indian actor. American Olympic snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington was named among the the backup crew.

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“Life is nuts,” Aoki claimed in footage that depicted the minute he was told he had been selected. “I’m heading to go to the … moon!”

Maezawa, who made his fortune by founding a Japanese on the internet retailer, announced that he was heading to the moon outdoors Area X’s Los Angeles headquarters in 2018. He mentioned then that he would choose up to eight artists to be a part of him on the trip, and expressed hope that the vacation would direct them to produce inspirational artwork.

On Friday, Maezawa recurring that hope as he declared the crew, indicating he was “excited to see what inspiring creations they appear up with in house.”

The billionaire also ran a contest searching for a “life partner” to be a part of him on his moon vacation, however Maezawa afterwards canceled the competitiveness.

In April, SpaceX released its 1st all-personal mission to the International Space Station, with its three consumers paying $55 million every. Last yr, Blue Origin, a SpaceX competitor owned by Bezos, flew the multibillionaire, his brother and two many others, location a file for each the oldest and youngest individual to fly to area.

Maezawa himself traveled to the Global Space Station past 12 months with a cameraman and assistant, flying on a Soyuz spacecraft that released from Kazakhstan. He posted videos of his keep in room on his YouTube channel. He performed with a yo-yo, painted and flew a paper aircraft when away from Earth.