In brief: Japanese tech billionaire to be SpaceX’s first space tourist

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n Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has unveiled the first private passenger it plans to fly around the Moon.

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Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, 42, announced: “I choose to go to the Moon.”n

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Source: BBC

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Scheduled for 2023, the mission will use SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket, a launch system that was introduced in 2016 but has yet to be tested.

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“It’s not 100 percent certain we can bring this to flight,” cautioned the Tesla boss when the announcement was made in California.

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While the rocket trip is some way off, Maezawa got to ride Musk at the SpaceX event:

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Maezawa, worth US$2.7 billion, is the creator and boss of online store Zozotown.

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