Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew - by b0yle
Although Maezawa hasn’t said how much he’ll be paying SpaceX for the DearMoon odyssey, the expense seems certain to amount to tens of millions of dollars, and perhaps on the order of $100 million or more.
Crew members could conceivably present artistic works during their zero-G journey, and ideally gain inspiration for future works that build off their space experiences.The Starship / Super Heavy launch system is still under development at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas. The DearMoon mission is currently scheduled to take place in 2023, but if Starship experiences the sorts of development schedule delays that are common for new types of rockets, that date is likely to slip.
“But I also have a lot of faith that by the time this mission happens, SpaceX will have iterated and improved the design to be reliable in a way that I don’t think has been possible before,” he said in a. “As we’ve seen with the Crew Dragon capsule and the Falcon 9, it’s an incredibly robust system. And I have a lot of faith that by the time DearMoon happens, Starship will be on that same level of reliability.
As it stands now, DearMoon would be the first Starship mission beyond Earth orbit. That initial odyssey would blaze a trail for, a retired engineer and investment analyst who became the first paying passenger to visit the International Space Station in 2001. A modified version of SpaceX’s Starship is being developed for NASA’s use as a lunar lander. It would
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