DJ, YouTuber, K-pop rapper on SpaceX lunar mission!
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A DJ, a YouTuber, and a K-pop artist will be on SpaceX’s upcoming mission to the moon.
A Japanese billionaire (Yusaku Maezawa) picked a commercial DJ, a K-pop rapper, and a space YouTuber, amongst others to go on a private SpaceX mission to go around the Moon.
The mission is planned to take place in 2023. It also has the potential to be the first human trip to the moon since 1972.
As part of the proposed fly-by, a spacecraft would make an orbit around the moon, getting to within a hundred kilometres of its surface.
From the time of departure to the time of arrival, the journey would last for eight days. The Starship rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX company is planning to use to transport the crew to space is yet to be granted clearance to fly by United States authorities.
Key crew members!
- DJ Steve Aoki from the United States and TOP from South Korea seem to be the most popular choices.
- TOP (Choi Seung hyun) is a rapper from South Korea.
- He was formerly the lead singer of the boyband Big Bang (South Korea)
- Tim Dodd is known as the Everyday Astronaut on YouTube.
- He has over 1.4 million subscribers to his channel.
- He is best known for his instructional videos on space travel and astrophysics.
- Yemi A.D. is a choreographer and dancer.
- Rhiannon Adam is a wildlife photographer and he will be in charge of taking photographs.
- Karim Iliya a filmmaker and Dev Joshi, an Indian actor will also be part of the crew.
- Mr Maezawa hopes that the crew members will use what they have learned to make a positive contribution to the world and to humanity.
- Mr Maezawa made his fortune as the founder of the online clothing company Zozo.
- Thereafter he has become prominently involved in the commercial space flight industry.
- He would also sponsor the cost of flying around the moon for the additional passengers.
SpaceX shares with us how SpaceX and NASA are partnering to go to the Moon.
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