Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Mezawa speaks at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hthorn, California.
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Japanese billionaire Yusuku Mezawa announced on Tuesday that he would select eight members of the public to join the orbit around the moon, which is scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Starship rocket in 2023.
“I invite you to join this mission,” Mezawa said in a video.
Announcing the mission in September 2018 with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Maizawa said the project was developed by artists flying on a lunar orbit.
His project, called Dearmoon, will now “10 to 12 people fly in all”, with eight crew members coming from the public, which Mezawa planned to select.
The billionaire says he will “pay for the whole trip,” so those who join him will fly for free. Mezeva made her fortune after founding the fashion retail company Zozotown, which resigned in 2019 after selling a majority stake in Softbank.
The Primoon mission will take three days to fly to the moon, loop back into its orbit, and then return. Musk added that, in addition to the first historic first as a private lunar mission, the rocket’s flight path means it will travel the distance traveled by the Apollo mission.
Musk said, “In this mission we expect more people to move forward than any human being has ever left the earth.
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The Dearmoon website says “pre-registration” is open until March 14. The pre-registration application contains someone’s name, country, email address, and profile picture request. The “initial screening” process begins March 21 with a “final interview and medical checkup” in late May.
There are two “key criteria” for anyone applying for a flight with a Meiza: first, a potential passenger “whatever is in the activity” can proceed by “going into space”.
“Going into space, can you do something even better, but bigger?” Mejawa asked.
Second, the eight aspiring astronauts should “be willing and able to support other crew members who share the same aspirations,” he said.
The company’s development facility launches the Starship prototype SN9 in Boca Chika, Texas.
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It has been almost two and a half years since Mezawa announced its original premoon and the project has stalled on the 2023 target for the launch of the mission.
In the meantime, SpaceX has continued to develop a starship. The rocket represents the next generation vehicle that is the key to Musk’s space exploration dreams.
The purpose of the musk is to make the starship completely reusable – not just a booster, which is the bottom of the rocket – by landing and re-launching more evenly like a commercial aircraft.
SpaceX has yet to reach orbit with a Starship rocket, but it is rapidly building and testing prototypes at its facility in Boca Chika, Texas. The company has successfully launched multiple Starship prototypes, landing them safely at short altitudes after a short flight of about 500 feet.
Two of its most recent high-altitude flights, despite passing multiple development targets, exploded on impact during the landing attempt.
SpaceX has not disclosed how much it has spent on the starship program to date, but Musk had previously estimated that it expects the company to spend about 5 5 billion on it.
Significantly, SpaceX’s valuation has risen from about $ 25 billion to મહિના 2 billion in the past month since Mezawa’s original announcement.
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