{"id":29180,"date":"2021-03-03T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/japanese-billionaire-looking-for-people-who-push-the-envelope-for-moon-flight"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:28:18","slug":"japanese-billionaire-looking-for-people-who-push-the-envelope-for-moon-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29180","title":{"rendered":"Japanese billionaire looking for people who &#8216;push the envelope&#8217; for moon flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, needs to fill eight spare seats on the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedition to eight people from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/13\/japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-seeks-special-woman-for-trip-around-moon\">Yusaku Maezawa<\/a>, an online fashion tycoon, was announced in 2018 as the first man to book a spot aboard the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/japanese-billionaire-looking-for-people-who-push-the-envelope-for-moon-flight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, needs to fill eight spare seats on the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceXIt\u2019s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,299,297,1442,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-science","category-space","category-spacex","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29180\/revisions\/29182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}