His name is yusaku maezawa. A japanese entrepreneur and billionaire named yusaku maezawa. · japanese billionaire yusaku maezawa will be the first ever private tourist to fly to the moon, spacex ceo elon musk revealed on monday. · japanese entrepreneur yusaku maezawa speaks about his moon mission through spacex. The dearmoon project was a proposed lunar tourism mission conceived and financed by japanese billionaire yusaku maezawa. In a monday press conference at spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california, musk announced that japanese billionaire yusaku maezawa has purchased the first ticket to lunar orbit. Finally i can tell you that i choose to go to the moon ! maezawa said during an announcement monday evening. It would have seen maezawa and eight civilian artists fly a circumlunar trajectory around the moon aboard a spacex starship spacecraft. Musk previously hinted the passenger for the next-generation bfr (politely known as the big falcon rocket). Spacex on monday revealed the mystery passenger who will take the first private flight to the moon. · last night, spacex founder elon musk announced that yusaku maezawa , a 42-year-old japanese billionaire and seemingly all-around pretty chill, non-suit-wearing guy, would make his lifelong. · elon musk and his rocket company, spacex , have revealed who will fly their spaceship around the moon for the first time:
