SpaceX’s first passenger to fly around the moon hopes to recruit a partner who likes him “to love the universe”.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa turned SpaceX’s debut around the moon into a marriage show.
“Recruitment: Why not be the first woman to travel to the moon?” Maezawa Yuzawa was looking for a female partner on twitter to fly with him around the moon. The campaign reality show, dubbed “Full Moon Lovers”, will be broadcast on Japanese streaming platform AbemaTV.
The solicitation requirements stated that the candidate must be a single woman over 20 years old, interested in entering space, and have a positive and optimistic personality. Yusaku Maezawa explained his original intention on the solicitation page: “I have been the president of the company for 21 years, running around … I am 44 years old. As loneliness and emptiness started slowly pouring into me, I thought It’s one thing: continue to love a woman …. I want to find a ‘life companion’. “So it’s no exaggeration to say this is a marriage show.
In response, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also reposted this Weibo. SpaceX is developing a next-generation manned spacecraft called the Starship, hoping to send people to the moon and eventually land on Mars. In order to raise funds, in September 2018, SpaceX sold the first private passenger ferry ticket to Yusaku Maezawa, the richest man in Japan. This trip will complete the orbit of the moon, which is currently the boldest of all space travel. At the time, Maezawa Yusaku also announced that he had added seats to travel with six to eight artists.
Masawa Yusaku did not disclose how much he paid, but Musk said that this was enough to help pay for some aircraft R & D costs. “He puts money in his mouth, which is legal.” Musk said at the time.
Willful and artistic, it is the outside world’s impression of this Japanese rich man. He is the founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online retailerAnd sold the company to Yahoo !, a SoftBank Group company, in September 2019. According to Forbes’ estimates, Maezawa’s works are worth about $ 2 billion. In May 2017, he bought a painting by Jean Michael Basquiat for $ 110.5 million. In January 2020, he announced on Twitter that 1 billion yen was randomly allocated to 1,000 people, 1 million yen per person, setting a record of 4 million times on Twitter.
It is worth mentioning that in December 2019, Maezawa Yusaku broke up with Japanese actress Gang Li Caiya. In this regard, he said: “We chose a different direction, she hopes to continue working hard at work, and I also have my own new business, such as the universe.”
Compared with the former Zezao’s momentum, it is the progress of the SpaceX project: at the end of 2019, Musk announced that the starship is expected to test flight within 2 to 3 months. According to the previous schedule, Musk hopes that the starship can enter orbit by the middle of 2020 and even achieve manned flight by the end of the year.
Along with the momentum created by Maezawa, SpaceX’s starship project has also made great progress. At the end of 2019, Musk announced that the starship is expected to take off in two to three months. SpaceX President and CMO Gwinnie Shortwell also revealed at a NASA meeting that the company hopes to land the spacecraft on the surface of the moon in 2022 and achieve orbit around the moon in 2023.
Titles are from Twitter by Maezawa and mz.abema.tv solicitation site