Fashion tycoon will be first man to fly around the moon in SpaceX rocket

One lucky man: Maezawa wearing a shirt featuring art by one of his favourite artists during the announcement at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. — AFP

Hawthorne: A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.

Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveller since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege.