Japan billionaire Maezawa's moon flyby pushed back to 2024 or beyond
09/11/2023 04:27
TOKYO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku
Maezawa said on Thursday his voyage around the moon with Elon
Musk's SpaceX had been delayed to 2024 or later.
"We were planning for our lunar orbital mission 'dearMoon'
to take place in 2023, but seems like it will take a little
longer," Maezawa said in a message on the social media platform
X, without giving reasons.
"We're not sure when the flight will be, but we will give
you all an update once we know more," he said.
In 2018, SpaceX named its first private passenger on the
trip as Maezawa, who made his fortune founding the online
fashion retailer Zozo Inc 3092.T .
Maezawa last year revealed K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki
will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on the
trip.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka. Editing by Gerry Doyle)
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