Yusaku Maezawa
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who will travel to the moon as the first ever tourist in 2023, decided to arrange a casting and recruit a team of eight for the trip. The entrepreneur wrote about this on his Twitter.
“I am recruiting a team to participate in this mission. I need eight people from all over the world. This trip will be attended by 10-12 people, for my part I invite eight, ”he said in a video message.
There are only two criteria by which Maezawa will select companions. Participants will need to talk about their activities and describe how going to the moon will help them bring more value to society. In addition, potential candidates need to be willing to work in a team and to support other team members.
Earlier, the billionaire wanted to start a TV show, the winner of which was to travel around the moon with Maezawa. More than 27 thousand women applied for the casting, but the entrepreneur changed his mind about looking for a beloved and turned off the show.
Maezawa, 44, is a fashion designer and founder of online clothing store Zozo, who left the post of CEO in September 2019. His current fortune, according to Forbes, is about two billion dollars. It is expected to be the first space tourist to orbit the moon. The flight is organized by the SpaceX company Elon Musk.
