SpaceX moon trip ticket sold, Japansese billionaire buys all
New Delhi : Possibly, you have missed the chance to tour around the Moon, as Elon Musk's SpaceX have confirmed that all tickets are sold out. A Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, has announced that he has bought all the tickets to moon. For now, he is the first private paying customer to ride the company's next-generation rocket to around the lunar space.
Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Japan's largest online clothing retailer site 'Zozotown' would welcome six to eight artists to accompany him on board. Maezawa, who is 42, with a real-time net worth of $2.9 billion, suggested the flight would take place as early as 2023.
SpaceX owner Elon Musk mentioned that Yusaku would be "bringing eight (brave) artists and cultural figures with him on the journey around the moon."
Musk called Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa "brave" and "an adventurer."
Musk considers the upcoming trip would be an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.
Sources confirmed that the moon trip would be undertaken by using the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). The carrier will be 118 meters long, with a payload capacity of 1,100 cubic meters and 100 metric tonnes.
It is believed that SpaceX falcon rocket would be more powerful than the Apollo missions' Saturn V rocket. The company released a promotional video in early 2018 showing a simulated BFR crew vehicle landing on the moon, but did not revealed any technical information.
Experts say that BFR is equipped with Raptor engines, each capable of 200 tonnnes of thrust.
"I thought long and hard about how valuable it would be to be the first passenger to the moon," Maezawa said at an announcement at Space Exploration Technologies Corp's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, sitting next to the rocket company's CEO, Elon Musk. "I choose to go to the moon with artists."
