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SpaceX Reveals First Paying Passenger Headed To Moon

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – SpaceX has revealed who will be the company's first paying customer to the moon.

It is Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese entrepreneur worth nearly $4 billion.

He will become the first person to travel into lunar orbit since the Apollo Mission in 1972.

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He will travel on SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket.

The BFR is still in development, so when the flight will occur is still uncertain.

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