https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-mystery-moon-passenger-yusaku-maezawa-first-bfr-tourist/

Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking up its plans to shoot tourists around the moon since early 2017. The vision's finally starting to feel a little more real, as Musk announced the company's first paying passenger on Monday.

The deep-pocketed space explorer is Yusaku Maezawa, a 42-year-old Japanese billionaire and founder of online fashion mall Zozotown. (Here's everything you need to know about Maezawa.)