Yusaku Maezawa, founding father of on-line trend web site Zozo Inc , completed a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz spacecraft in December final 12 months and plans to journey across the moon with Musk’s rocket and satellite tv for pc firm SpaceX in 2023.

The 47-year-old entrepreneur tweeted that he had held an internet assembly with Musk and “can now make a big announcement about space on December 9”.

The house fanatic will doubtless turn out to be the primary non-public passenger on a SpaceX moon mission with a week-long fly-by deliberate for 2023, as business corporations together with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin usher in a brand new age of house journey for rich shoppers.

Maezawa made his fortune founding the net trend retailer Zozo which was purchased by Softbank Group Corp’s web enterprise.

Following Maezawa’s tweet, shares in Inclusive Inc which offers space-related enterprise using satellite tv for pc information, soared 11.7% to shut at 1,171 yen.