https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7nwxb/hey-jeff-bezos-send-hideo-kojima-to-space-already > Hideo Kojima really wants to go to space, possibly more than anybody on Earth including actual astronauts.  > Kojima's fascination with space is no big secret. The branding for his studio Kojima Productions features a mysterious space explorer planting a flag on an alien world, and his 1994 game Policenauts takes place in space. But when I picked up his new book of collected essays, released as The Creative Gene in English, I was taken aback by just how much his as-yet unfulfilled desire to go to space seems to define him. It doesn't even need to be fancy, like a trip to the moon or Mars, but Kojima writes in a 2009 essay that he'd be happy with just eking out past Earth's atmosphere. Here: