The Japanese billionaire chose TOP K-pop star, DJ Steve Aoki to join the Space | tour World news
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa revealed on Friday that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members who plan to travel around the moon as soon as next year, riding on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.
Maezawa bought every seat on the maiden lunar journey, which has been in the works since 2018 and will follow his journey on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) for 12 days last year. .
The selections were announced by Maezawa on Twitter and on a website for what he calls the #dearMoon Project.
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The fashion designer and her crew will become the first passengers on SpaceX’s lunar mission as companies, including Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, usher in a new age of space travel for wealthy consumers.
The mission aboard SpaceX’s Starship is scheduled to take eight days from launch to return to Earth, including three days orbiting the moon, coming within 200 kilometers of the moon’s surface. Although the flight is scheduled for 2023, it faces delays due to the ongoing tests of the aircraft and its rockets.
Like fellow billionaire Musk, Maezawa has a passion for promotion and love with Twitter – he has boasted of holding the Guinness World Record for the most retweeted post, when he offered a cash prize of 1 million yen ($7300) to 100 winners for retweeting she.
Maezawa used the micro-blogging site to recruit eight members from around the world to join him on the lunar journey, and he says that a million people have used it.
TOP, the stage name of Choi Seung Hyun who came out with the K-pop group Big Bang, was among the highest profile members selected, along with Aoki, an African-American singer and DJ founded by his father Benihana restaurant chain.
“I feel great pride and responsibility in becoming the first Korean to go to the moon,” TOP said in a video posted after the announcement.
Indian actor Dev Joshi is also among the nominees for the team, which consists mostly of actors and photographers. US Olympian Kaitlyn Farrington and Japanese dancer Miyu were named as backup crew members.
Maezawa, 47, presented an update on the moon trip on Monday, tweeting he wants to hold an online meeting with Musk and is preparing a “big announcement about space.”
Maezawa made his fortune by creating online fashion retailer Zozo Inc, in which internet conglomerate Softbank Group Corp is now the top shareholder.
