"Bess and his fellow paying passengers on the New Shepard mission -- space tech executive Dylan Taylor and Evan Dick, a former managing director at Highbridge Capital Management -- won't even be the first space tourists this week: Japanese retail mogul Yusaku Maezawa blasted off early Wednesday for a 12-day trip to the International Space Station."
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"And in 2023, Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa plans to take eight artists with him on a trip around the moon in SpaceX's larger, next-generation Starship rocket."
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"Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted in March calling more people to join him on his journey to the moon via Elon Musk's SpaceX, expected to launch in 2023."
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"The record price paid for a Basquiat at auction was set in 2017 when another painting of a skull, this one from 1982, sold to the Japanese internet billionaire Yusaku Maezawa for $110.5 million at Sotheby's in New York. "
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"Given his belief that all humans are creative artists in their own way, Yusaku Maezawa is encouraging all who see themselves as artists to apply under two conditions:"
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"In 2018, Japanese Entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa purchased all the seats aboard this rocket. "
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"Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has kicked off a global contest to select eight crew members to join him on a private SpaceX flight around the moon in 2023, the first such mission conducted on a commercial basis."
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