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Japanese billionaire seeks 8 crewmembers for moon-bound mission on SpaceX's Starship:
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight crewmembers for a mission to the moon.
Maezawa, a controversial entrepreneur who previously held a "girlfriend contest" for a now-defunct space-bound mission, announced Tuesday (March 2) that his dearMoon project, which aims to fly the "first civilian mission to the moon," according to the project website, is now looking for eight crewmembers to fly to and around the moon and back on SpaceX's Starship spacecraft.
The project was announced in 2018 with the original intent to bring a crew of artists to the moon. In this latest release, Maezawa calls for applicants to make up a crew of eight individuals from around the world for the week-long lunar trip.
For more information about the project and applicant requirements, check out the dearMoon website here.
Related: How SpaceX's lunar flight with Yusaku Maezawa will work
Watch this video to learn more about the selection process. It also contains a special message from @elonmusk #dearMoon ↓ Check the full version March 2, 2021
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:59AM (1 child)
This is GReat! Private enterprise, Japanese money, just like in the Movie "Contact". Just be sure to disembark rather quickly, as the whole thing is going to go Big-badda-boom! 15 minutes after landing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @06:44AM
You get 180 seconds to get clear. The headline should read, "Rich Japanese guy seeks new friends for Supokku Club. Reaching orbit may happen, maybe not."
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:11AM (2 children)
MZ is looking for "artists" to fly with him. The challenge is to stretch the envelope of your art form in space. I would be very interested in seeing porn stars performing in space. Admit it - so would you be interested! Then we need to land some of those artists on the moon, and we'll have MoonTubes as well!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @02:04PM
NSFW moontubes dot com
a heads up would be nice...
(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Thursday March 04 2021, @04:08PM
Thing big. We're going to be establishing bases on the moon. And tourism will flow naturally.
MoonTubes? Nah, we're going full-on: come for the 0g, stay for the moon poon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:40AM (2 children)
they request name and picture for the first step. it seems a bit absurd. to be fair, anyone giving out free tickets to circle the moon has the right to be absurd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @09:40AM
You'll be subject to intense media scrutiny. Not the right venture for an anon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @03:49PM
no no, it's the leadership of the Randian ubermench
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Thursday March 04 2021, @10:39AM (2 children)
Maybe he should take some cows up. Imagine the marbling you could get in zero-g!
(Score: 2) by iWantToKeepAnon on Thursday March 04 2021, @02:18PM
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday March 04 2021, @03:08PM
Not much in a week. And it'd mean you'd be breathing cow exhaust that entire time...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday March 04 2021, @02:09PM (4 children)
It sounds like a madcap adventure. It could be fun, though. If everyone survives it would give them all a bond and and experience like no other.
For potentially one-way trips through space I'd prefer Elon Musk's drive to settle Mars. I'd never make the cut when that mission is ready to blast off, but I've wanted to go there my whole life.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday March 04 2021, @03:14PM (2 children)
I'm holding onto some hope that in a few decades there'll be a market for old geezers to work high-risk jobs in space. Yeah, I probably won't be as strong, nimble, or healthy as many of the applicants - but I'll be able to offer a reckless disregard for long-term survival, since I'll no longer have that option anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @09:06PM (1 child)
Like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_War [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday March 04 2021, @09:23PM
Sounds like it might be a fun read, but since it sounds like they give old people young superhuman bodies before they start the job... I'm going with no. Not at all.
The big point of letting old farts do high-risk jobs is that even though their old bodies make them physically less effective at most jobs than younger colleagues, they've already mostly lived their lives and are going to be dead soon anyway, so it's far less of a sacrifice to take a job that's likely to kill them within 5-10 years - there's a decent chance something else will kill them before then anyway. May as well go out contributing to one of humanity's great transforming endeavors, rather than sitting around in a nursing home waiting to die.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Thursday March 04 2021, @11:35PM
Agree, anything is better than “retirement”. But, when I was much younger I read “The Man who sold the Moon” by Heinlein and I thought (still do) I would be perfectly fine with dying on the Moon, at least it would mean I have been there! Point of fact, I’ll happily settle for a couple of orbits around Earth and then a fiery crash!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Subsentient on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:02PM (1 child)
If I wanted to be trapped in a small room with a powerful rich man and 7 of his dick sucking yes-men, I'd visit the gay bath house a mile from our local Republican headquarters.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @11:20PM
I thought that was the local Republican headquarters?