on Friday, December 9, revealed that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.
The picks were announced by Maezawa on Twitter and at a website for what he dubbed the #dearMoon Project. Like fellow billionaire Musk, Maezawa has a flare for promotion and an infatuation with Twitter – he has boasted to holding the Guinness world record for the most retweeted post, when he offered a cash prize of 1 million yen to 100 winners for retweeting it.
, along with Aoki, a Japanese American musician and DJ whose father founded the Benihana restaurant chain.