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SpaceX names Japanese billionaire as first private passenger

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has named Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire behind the apparel self-measurement system Zozosuit, as the first private passenger it will send on a flight around the Moon.

Mr Musk set a tentative goal of 2023 for lift off. Mr Maezawa said he had purchased all the available seats on the flight and wanted to bring up to eight artists with him on the round trip, which an official website says will take more than five days from launch to landing.

“I did not want to have such a fantastic experience by myself”, Mr Maezawa, a renowned art collector, said at the unveiling ceremony, also attended by Mr Musk. “That would be a little lonely.”

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