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Japanese billionaire seeks eight people to fly to moon
The SpaceX Starship is a reusable heavy-lift launch rocket by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space project. It is designed to launch space vehicles for tourism, earth-lunar transport, Mars colonization, and more. The second stage of the rocket, or Starship, will carry cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft into space. On March 3, the 122-meter-tall prototype rocket successfully soft-landed during a test flight. However, shortly after the touchdown, the rocket exploded on the launch pad because of a methane leak.
A few days before the incident, a Japanese fashion billionaire announced that he invites eight passengers to join him for a trip to the Moon on a SpaceX flight. He wants people who are willing to help others including the co-passengers and offers them a free ride. Yes, he bought all the seats of the first commercial flight to the Moon and made it a private tour.
Now, after seeing the explosion video, how many applicants will the billionaire get? The flight is planned for 2023, about a half-century after the last lunar journey by humans.
Enjoy reading the article and think if the first commercial passenger flight to the Moon should have been made a private one.
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