https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/17/meet-yusaku-maezawa-the-private-passenger-to-take-spacexs-bfr-to-the-moon/ > Japanese billionaire and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private citizen to take a flight around the moon in SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket, a 240,000-mile journey slated for as early as 2023. > In an emotional and jubilant speech during a SpaceX event Monday at the company’s headquarters in near Los Angeles, Maezawa exclaimed “I choose to go to the moon!”