SpaceX reveals first moon passenger: Yusaku Maezawa, Japanese fashion billionaire

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/17/spacex-reveals-first-private-p.html

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Just don’t try to write it off as a business expense.

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Aw, I was kind of hoping the first Earth Tourist to go over the moon would be some kind of Space Cow.

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Now that that’s out of the way, who will be the first person to go to the moon via GoFundMe?

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"If Pablo Picasso had been able to see the moon up-close, what kind of paintings would he have drawn?”

It would have been his moon period.

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I believe this mission will be a first of sorts.

There have been several “go to the moon but don’t land” piloted missions, but AFAIK this will be the first planned* “go around once” figure 8 mission. The SpaceX ship won’t orbit the moon, just do a fly-by.

*Apollo 13 did a fly by orbit-once.

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“It’s just a phase.”

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Maybe he can somehow offset that against his bonus miles?

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What a pity he’s so attractive. I would much prefer the first space tourist to be an obese sweaty man in an aloha shirt.

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May have happened on one of those classified Shuttle missions. Experiment: Does milk curdle in micro-gravity?

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Timing? In other news, Elon Musk is still a dick.

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Duh, you’ve got to bring your golf clubs and hand in a documentation of your tee times and scores.

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I was skeptical. But this could be a brilliant plan to rid the earth of billionaires.

No. Really - there’s a Mars colony all set up and waiting for you.

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Musk working hard to open up space for the common man billionaire playboy.

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ftfy

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