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#SpaceX: From the Earth to the Moon privately. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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#SpaceX: From the Earth to the Moon privately. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/billionaire-maezawa-chooses-his-passengers-for-starship-lunar-flight/

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0:00.0

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0:31.0

This is CBS High in the World, I'm John Batchler. From the surface of the planet Earth,

0:40.0

we're headed to the surface of the moon. On a starship flight. Bob Zimmerman is here.

0:46.0

He keeps the website behind the black. And before the blastoffs, you've got to name a crew

0:51.0

and a passenger list. The man is a billionaire, Maya Zawa. And he's announced eight passengers.

0:57.0

He will take with him on his private starship flight. To say unprecedented is inadequate.

1:03.0

So I ask Bob, help. Bob, is this something that is important to Maya Zawa?

1:09.0

We've had private flights before, but to the moon, very high risk. Correct. Good evening to you, Maya.

1:15.0

Good evening, John. Billionaire, you Zaku, Maya Zawa. He had announced this flight

1:23.0

with Elon Musk. Oh, it is now almost four years ago. Three years ago, he purchased, it's not a landing.

1:30.0

It's an orbital flight. It will go around the moon and come back, starship.

1:34.0

He announced this flight right at the very beginning of starship development.

1:38.0

He basically paid some undisclosed amounts of money to buy the entire flight, so it will be him and plus passengers.

1:46.0

And he announced this is going to be part of a project he has to take artists or creative individuals with him to the moon.

1:54.0

Wanted to promote the creativity and get different perspectives in what it's like to go to the moon.

1:59.0

Not that with his goal. And so this week, he announced for the first time the passengers he's going to take with him.

2:06.0

He put out a whole contest in which people who wanted to go would submit videos.

2:11.0

And you could watch a bunch of those videos to get an idea of what people are proposing.

2:15.0

And so he announced the A-People. It's actually the full list of pan, including two backup passengers.

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