Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who returned to Earth in December after a 12-day journey into space, attends a news conference after returning to Japan at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, in Tokyo, Japan Jan 7, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files
TOKYO -Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted on Monday that he plans to make a “big announcement” related to space after a meeting with SpaceX owner Elon Musk. Yusaku Maezawa, founder of online fashion site Zozo Inc, completed a tourist trip to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft in December last year and plans to journey around the moon with Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX in 2023.
The 47-year-old entrepreneur tweeted that he had held an online meeting with Musk and “can now make a big announcement about space on December 9”.The space enthusiast will likely become the first private passenger on a SpaceX moon mission with a week-long fly-by planned for 2023, as commercial firms including Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin usher in a new age of space travel for wealthy clients.
Maezawa made his fortune founding the online fashion retailer Zozo which was bought by Softbank Group Corp’s internet business.
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