Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa refused to fly Starship to the Moon
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa refused to fly on Starship to the Moon. About it reports SpaceNews publication.
The businessman canceled the DearMoon mission, which was supposed to fly around the Earth’s natural satellite, due to uncertainties with the Starship schedule.
The DearMoon project website states that a flyby of the Moon should take place at the end of 2023. The contract for the mission with SpaceX was signed in 2018. “I signed the contract in 2018, based on the assumption that DearMoon would launch by the end of 2023,” the publication quoted the Japanese billionaire as saying.
In December 2021, the Russian Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft sent two tourists to the International Space Station – Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa and producer Ezo Hirano.
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