Steve Aoki joins the fleet for SpaceX’s first commercial flight around the moon

Famed cake-throwing DJ/Producer Steve Aoki will be one of eight people to take part in SpaceX’s first civilian flight around the moon in a project dubbed ‘dearMoon’ planned for 2023. 

Aoki was one of eight people selected by Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, including K-pop superstar Choi Seung Hyun from Korean boyband BIGBANG, better known as T.O.P.

“Life is crazy,” said Aoki in a clip recorded to capture his reaction to the news. “I’m going to go to the… moon!”

Maezawa, a “space enthusiast” and online fashion retail mogul with a net worth of $1.7 billion, heads up the world’s first-ever civilian lunar orbital mission. He will be funding the cost of 10 people he selected, including two backup crew members, who were reportedly selected from a pool of 1 million applicants. 

According to The Washington Post, the ‘dearMoon’ crew will fly around the moon using a reusable launch vehicle developed by SpaceX but will not land on the planet’s surface in a journey expected to last just under six days.

You can check out the ‘dearMoon’ schedule and flight plan here.