Japanese billionaire Maezawa picks K-pop star TOP, DJ Steve Aoki to join SpaceX moon trip

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TOP, the stage name of Choi Seung Hyun who broke out with the K-pop group BIGBANG, is among the higher profile members selected.

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.

 

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