Elon Musk will send Japanese billionaire and artists around the moon

Elon Musk will send Japanese billionaire and artists around the moon

42-year-old billionaire and founder of Japanese e-commerce giant ZOZO Yusaku Maezawa joined a mission that will testify as a spacecraft BFR company Spacex will go out of Earth orbit with a civil crew on board in 2023.

SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket - Elon Musk & Yusaku Maezawa

Elon Musk will send Japanese billionaire and artists around the moon

A few days ago, Musk introduced Maezawa and revealed some details of this mission, as well as the company's space goals. According to their plans, the mission will only take four or five days, although it's a pretty long time in a spaceship built to accommodate 100 people, even with such an incredible view. But this is certainly not a problem, since Maezawa will not fly on his own, he plans to take a group of artists with him.

The Japanese billionaire admitted that this is his life's dream! He is also an avid art collector, so he chose six to eight creative personalities, from painters, sculptors, designers to architects, to share this incredible experience with them.

“What if Basquiat went into space? What wonderful masterpiece would he create? What if Picasso went to the moon, or Andy Warhol, or Michael Jackson, or John Lennon, or Coco Chanel? " Art works, which will be the result of this weekly mission under the hashtag #dearmoon, "Will inspire the dreamers who live in each of us," says Maezawa. Especially for this project, he launched a website dearmoon.earth, where you can learn more about the mission and its ideological inspirer.

Spacex big falcon rocket

Spacex big falcon rocket

Spacex big falcon rocket

Company Spacex (Official website) will build BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) - a huge rocket that will help humanity colonize Mars. Apart from orbital travel around the Moon, Musk's ambition is to launch a bareboat mission to Mars in 2022, then send a crewed mission on board in 2024 using a rocket. BFR.

Renders of the SpaceX base on Mars

Renders of the SpaceX base on Mars

This is undoubtedly an important step towards free access for ordinary peoplewho dream of traveling into space. However, with what certainty and when this first step will actually be taken remains to be seen. Looking forward to launch in 2023, Elon Musk stressed that this date is not set in stone, although all contracts have been signed for this flight. He also stated that the team Spacex definitely not sure about deadlines, and that it is dangerous to make such statements.

“This is not a walk in the park. When you go beyond something, you cannot be absolutely sure. There is always a chance that something can go wrong ... the main thing for us is to do everything right, not quickly. "

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27.09.2018