Japanese Billionaire Maezawa Picks K-pop Star T.O.P, DJ Steve Aoki to Join SpaceX Moon Trip

Japanese Billionaire Maezawa Picks K-pop Star T.O.P, DJ Steve Aoki to Join SpaceX Moon Trip
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who returned to Earth last month after a 12-day journey into space, attends a news conference after returning to Japan, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2022. Issei Kato/Reuters
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TOKYO—Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa revealed on Friday that K-pop star T.O.P. and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon as soon as next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

Maezawa bought every seat on the maiden lunar voyage, which has been in the works since 2018 and would follow his trip on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 12-day stint last year.