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- If you do something creative that could benefit from flying around the Moon, you might actually get a chance to do so.
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Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight
The number of spaceflight seats open to the general public (not only multimillionaires and career astronauts) just increased from 2 to 10. And it's not just orbiting Earth - it's going to the Moon.
Yusaku Maezawa pays for a Starship flight with 10-12 passengers. His original plan was to invite artists, but with the huge range of artistic activities to choose from he decided to reverse that - let people apply and select 8 from there. It's generally open to everyone (unlike Inspiration4 it's not limited to US citizens), but you should have some activity that will benefit from you flying around the Moon. Presumably the selection will use that potential benefit as main criterion. Deadline is March 14.
The flight is planned for 2023 and will take about 6 days. It's a free-return trajectory, a single pass behind the Moon without entering orbit.
Starship is still in development. Unlike Crew Dragon, which has flown people to space and returned them, Starship has not flown to orbit yet. Human-rating the rocket will take some time as well. Delays are likely and the few details we have might change.
Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight
The number of spaceflight seats open to the general public (not only multimillionaires and career astronauts) just increased from 2 to 10. And it's not just orbiting Earth - it's going to the Moon.
Yusaku Maezawa pays for a Starship flight with 10-12 passengers. His original plan was to invite artists, but with the huge range of artistic activities to choose from he decided to reverse that - let people apply and select 8 from there. It's generally open to everyone (unlike Inspiration4 it's not limited to US citizens), but you should have some activity that will benefit from you flying around the Moon. Presumably the selection will use that potential benefit as main criterion. Deadline is March 14.
The flight is planned for 2023 and will take about 6 days. It's a free-return trajectory, a single pass behind the Moon without entering orbit.
Starship is still in development. Unlike Crew Dragon, which has flown people to space and returned them, Starship has not flown to orbit yet. Human-rating the rocket will take some time as well. Delays are likely and the few details we have might change.
