The eight shortlisted applicants will not be required to pay any travel expenses and there are no restrictions on gender, age, educational background. But it is important that the applicant is ready to push the limits. And willing to support other travel companions
For those who are interested, they must register by March 14. Preliminary qualification will be checked around March 21. The final interview and health check are expected to be completed during the period. Late May, according to information from the Maesawa website.
Maesawa stated on Twitter that “I have already bought all the seats. This makes it a private tour. ”SpaceX’s spacecraft will take 10-12 passengers and crew to circle the moon before returning to Earth.
For space flights, it is expected that the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which has been built and developed since 2016, will launch the “Starship” spacecraft in 2023 or About the next 2 years
If the mission succeeds, the Maesawa crew will be the first group of citizens to venture beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo mission NASA operated in 1972.
Maesawa is the founder of Zozo Inc, a major Japanese online clothing retailer. With assets worth around US $ 2 billion (60 billion baht) last year, Maesawa was ranked as the 14th wealthy person in Japan.
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