Millionaire seeks girlfriend to go to the Moon

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If we go back 26 years and travel to one of those dark pits in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, few could imagine that the young man who played drums in the Japanese punk group Switch Style was going to moon . Literally. Or that the son of a modest accountant was to become the Japanese emperor of online fashion. Or that the boy who sold records by mail from his home was going to be able to pay $ 110 million for a painting, a painting by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1982.

Enter your name: Yusaku Maezawa. He is one of those curious characters that History leaves from time to time. His presentation can be taken from a holder of The Telegraph two years ago: "The fashion mogul and former punk rocker who will fly on the lunar rocket of Elon Musk."

Because Maezawa (44 years old) became the first tourist to buy a ticket to the Moon. The first man to board the Starship spacecraft of Space X, the aerospace company of billionaire Elon Musk. That mission is scheduled for 2023. And the Japanese has no plans to go alone. First he said he wanted to be accompanied by "six to eight artists" so they could "create art based on their lunar experience." A musician, a fashion designer, a painter, a dancer, a novelist ... In another era, as he said in an interview, he would have taken Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson and John Lennon with him .

Now it has given him a more romantic point. As he said on Twitter: "I am looking for a special woman to join me in the mission around the Moon." The classic boy is looking for a girl, but this time to take a trip of 384,403 kilometers, paraphrasing the Pignoise song that said "get on my rocket and float in space, fluorescent lights ...".

Although the Japanese, after separating from his partner, the model and actress Ayame Goriki, has written his own version. "I am sure that I have been able to acquire my share of money, social status and fame along the way. But now I am restarting my life. As feelings of loneliness and emptiness begin to slowly emerge over me, there is one thing in which I think: to continue loving a woman. I want to find a life partner. With that future partner, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space . "

In addition, on his website he has presented the requirements of the woman who must accompany him in the Musk SpaceX project. You have to be over 20 years old, have a bright and positive personality and interest in space travel . There is a deadline to submit applications: January 17.

Two months later, the billionaire who set up the popular online fashion retailer, Zozotown, will choose his lunar girlfriend. Both will be the passengers of the Falcon of the owner of Tesla, a stainless steel ship with three rear wings, with a height of 118 meters and driven by six Raptors engines. In the first part of the rocket are fuel systems and the second is designed to accommodate up to 100 passengers, with a volume of interior pressurized area comparable to that of an Airbus A380 .

" This is my lifelong dream ," Maezawa said when last year he announced with Elon Musk that he was going to be the first passenger in the rocket. Then Musk said his new spacecraft would allow SpaceX "to build a base on the Moon, colonize Mars and allow commercial trips to any part of the Earth in less than an hour." Neither of the two protagonists confessed how much the Japanese billionaire had paid to participate in the mission. "I paid more than for Basquiat's work," said Mawzawa. Of course, Musk said that his accompanying artists and the girlfriend he finds will travel for free.

According to Forbes, Maezawa's fortune reaches 3 billion dollars. Part of the money is left in his Tokyo-based Contemporary Art Foundation, which he set up to support emerging artists in his country. Although lately the Japanese has starred in headlines for giving away their money on Twitter. Specifically, nine million dollars as part of what he called a "social experiment to increase the happiness of his followers." The money will be distributed among 1,000 randomly selected followers who retweeted - four million times - a publication made on January 1. Now he just needs to find a girlfriend to go to the Moon.

THE FIRST WOMEN IN THE MOON

" Are you coming to the moon with me? " Yusaku Maezawa does not exaggerate in his Twitter ad to meet his next partner. "Wanted! Why not be the first woman to go to the moon? ”Says the businessman who has bought all the spaces of SpaceX's private mission to orbit her. Although Elon Musk manages to carry it out in 2023, as he has announced, NASA is likely to do so earlier: by advancing the Artemis program calendar to return to our satellite, the first manned mission orbiting the Moon - surely with a woman among the crew - it would be in 2023.

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