Wealthy Japanese businessmen want 8 people to join him on a lunar exploration trip
Although interstellar travel is not yet fully realized, Japan's billionaire has openly recruited 8 people around the world to participate in his 2023 lunar exploration journey.
—Space Exploration Technologies Spacecraft/Wikimedia
According to a tweet tweet by wealthy Japanese businessman Maezawa, he will hold a public participation event where people can follow Maezawa on a spacecraft from Space Exploration Technologies to complete a lunar exploration trip in 2023.
Do you think I'm telling a cyberpunk novel? No! A Japanese billionaire just said he wanted to find 8 people around the world to go to the moon with him.
1 Japanese billionaire recruited 8 people for his private lunar exploration trip
"I hope that people from all over the world will join us," Maezawa says, "We will recruit 10 or 12 people first, but in the end only 8 people will land on the moon with me." ”
Maezawa Yusaku is the founder of Japan's largest online fashion retailer with a market capitalization of 2 billion. And back in 2018, when he met with Elon Musk, CEO of Space Exploration Technologies, at the company's California headquarters, he first offered to recruit companions for the upcoming star voyage.
At this conference, Maezawa's "Hello, Moon" project, also known as an art collector, was announced for the first time. The project plans to bring 6 to 8 artists from all over the world with it in 2023, spending about 6 days working together on the lunar landing mission.
At the conference, Maezawa noted: "Those artists will complete a batch of artworks upon their return to Earth, and I believe that those artworks can inspire the dream of flying into space, including all of us." ”
2 Maezawa Yusaku has found a female companion on a lunar trip
Since the project was announced in 2018, there has not been much news about it. In January 2020, Maezawa held an inexplicable event as he found a woman who could accompany him on his lunar exploration trip. The number of people participating in the competition reached 27,722, and Japanese media streaming service AbameTV created a live-action program called "Lovers of the Moon" to record the competition.
The billionaire tweeted that for "personal reasons", he canceled his plans to find intimate female partners, and then he canceled the "Lovers of the Moon" show. He also publicly apologized to AbemaTV's staff and participants.
3 Maezawa's spacecraft may make its first orbit around the ground in 2021 at the latest
Space Exploration Technologies' spacecraft is the world's first manned Mars rocket system that can return to Earth, carrying up to 100 tons of cargo and will complete deep space exploration missions in the future. The private aerospace company has conducted several early rapid and fluid trainings on the next-generation rocket from Boca Chica, Texas.
Two high-orbit spacecraft have successfully completed their launch and flight missions recently, but unfortunately, prototypes of both spacecraft exploded in a strong fireball while trying to land. Even if the time it takes to develop the spacecraft becomes unknown, Gern Shortwell, president of Musk and Space Exploration Technologies, predicted that the first orbital flight of a starship would probably be achieved by 2021.
It's a story of information explosion and will continue to be updated as new information emerges.
Related knowledge
Spacecraft, also known as space vehicles, spacecraft or spacecraft, are various aircraft in space outside the Earth's atmosphere that basically move according to the laws of celestial mechanics [1]. Spacecraft differ from natural objects in that they can be controlled to change their orbit or be recovered. Common spacecraft include artificial satellites, space probes, space shuttles and various space stations. For a spacecraft to complete its mission, it must have the cooperation of launch sites, launch vehicles, space measurement and control systems, data acquisition systems, user stations, and recycling facilities. If you need to carry people, you need to carry the assistance of subsistence resources, life support systems, and member observation training procedures. The V2 rocket can be regarded as the world's first spacecraft in the minds of ordinary people.
BY: Brad Bergan
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