(18 Sep 2018) SpaceX says Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of clothes retailer Zozo, will be the first private passenger on a rocket trip around the moon.
The 42-year-old Japanese billionaire appeared at an event Monday evening at the space launch company's headquarters near Los Angeles.
The SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket is scheduled to make the trip in 2023, Maezawa and company founder Elon Musk announced at the event.
The average distance from Earth to the moon is about 237,685 miles (382,500 kilometers).
No one has been there since an Apollo mission in 1972.

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